Thank you, Madam Chair.
I welcome all the witnesses. We're actually honoured to have you here.
In listening to your opening remarks...this committee did some work across Canada. We travelled across Canada, and I was fortunate enough to be able to participate for a couple of days. I'm getting a bit of a disturbing trend in terms of the commentary with respect to the funding. It isn't even so much the amount of the funding; it's that specific programs are being funded, and organizations are constantly having to spend an inordinate number of hours and days and weeks applying for funding, tweaking programs, and sitting around biting their nails to see if they get it.
Now, I heard this time and time again, so I'd like to find out from you, is that the case?