Thank you very much for the question.
I think everybody knows that the women's program is our grants and contributions funding, which is the majority of the funding for Status of Women Canada. Approximately $19 million has been spent over the past few years, and this is the plan for the coming year as well.
Usually we fund about 300 projects. If you calculate since 2007, we've funded more than $162 million in the areas of violence, economic security, and democratic participation. I think that amounts to about 300 projects.
What we are trying to do is make it easier for applicants. We have an online system, for example, which people can go to and put their submission into. We also provide support so that people can call somebody in the women's program to be walked through the application process; we're trying to make it easier for applicants.
We're also doing targeted calls, as we mentioned earlier, in terms of having priorities. If the priority one year is more on the economic side, as you saw, rather than the violence side, we try to find that balance.
We also have the continuous intake, whereby at any time, should an organization wish to access funding, they can call us, they can work with us, and we can work with them on the project to see whether it's possible to fund it.