Thank you very much. That was more than seven minutes.
I have some questions for you, Ms. Pierre. You've touched on a number of things, and they keep coming back to funding. We were very concerned, profoundly concerned, with the changes Status of Women Canada made to the funding formula in 2006 and with the deterioration, or what we see as the deterioration, in support and appropriate support.
My question, essentially, is that we keep hearing that there must be core funding. We also keep hearing that the problem with the current situation is that there will be needs, very clear needs, in the community. But it doesn't quite fit the description you see on the website or the program that might be offered. So there is this effort made to try to make a square peg fit into a round hole. And in the ensuing effort, there's also the reality that a lot of time is being devoted to creating proposals that have to be re-created 12 or 18 months later, and the real work that has to happen isn't being done.
Certainly I'd like to hear from everyone. Is that a fair assessment? Is that an accurate reality for the community?