I think the flip side of that, Madam Chair, is that we didn't have the opportunity to hear from organizations that did receive funding. I think it was a very unbalanced demonstration of what was available out there.
As I said in the past, when an organization has been receiving funding for 20 years, what that funding has become is part of their general revenue. There are other organizations that have obviously put forward very good proposals, new ideas, and new directions that have been deemed as having a good opportunity for the people in their community.
I think if we had heard from those other organizations, we as parliamentarians would have been able to determine what those organizations are doing in our own communities. That would have given us the balanced approach.
I'm very sorry, as a member of this committee, that we didn't have any representation from the other side to come in and tell us what they're doing.