Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you very much for being here. We appreciate the information and also the effort you have gone to.
I have a question. On Tuesday we heard from Judith Wahl. She's the executive director of the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly. Madam Wahl told us that the ad hoc nature of new horizons grants meant that organizations were busy putting together proposals and were so busy doing short-term proposals that the real work wasn't being done.
I'm wondering, why not give some core funding? One of the things we've heard over and over in this committee—I've been here for almost six years—is that the ad hoc nature of funding undermines what organizations can do on the ground and that there has to be core funding. It seems to me that this would apply to elder abuse as well.
Could you comment and tell us why there is no core funding? Why is there nothing substantive so that something real can happen?