Thank you, Madam Chair.
I am having some difficulty understanding. The original motion, which we agreed to here, was designed to determine what had happened with the funding from Status of Women Canada. Ms. Boucher initially asked us to invite an equal number of organizations that had received funding, but that proposal was modified. Now, we are being asked to invite 15 groups that received funding so that they can tell us what really works in Canada. That is what you said:
what really works; let us see what really works in Canada.
That means that these 78 organizations that received funding would know what it takes for things to work in Canada, but the other 328 would not. So only the organizations that received funding deserved to be funded.
I am having a hard time understanding. It is as though the organizations that received funding are being pitted against the ones that did not. All we wanted was to understand why organizations that had received funding for 15, 20 or 30 years were no longer being funded even though they had the same goals as before. That was our question.
I don't understand anymore. I'm certainly going to vote against this. We are talking about 20 groups, which makes no sense.