We definitely developed proposals to fit the criteria. We did submit one previously under the new criteria--the criteria changed four years ago--and we were approved, and that happened.
We then developed a subsequent--like a phase 2--proposal from the one that was, to provide training and materials to help the staff of transition homes or shelters for women seeking refuge from violent situations, to deal with an increasingly diverse population of women. That's what our project was, and we were denied.
We were initially given the same general letter I think everyone got, which was that we couldn't be funded at this time. But we asked for more details on why we were denied and we were told it was too similar to a previous project funded in Alberta. We would argue that our project would be quite different. First, we're a bilingual organization, so we would be doing training and producing training materials in French as well as English. As well, we were going to update a national fact sheet on violence against women, again both in French and English, which had not been done in the other project. And our materials would get a very wide distribution.