I would agree. There are projects in British Columbia like Take a Hike that are ready, and they need funding right now. Take a Hike, for the last 22 years, has been funded almost entirely by philanthropy. Last year we received about $150,000 of non-COVID-related government funding.
This year, as we're starting to negotiate some funding with the federal government, there are concerns around how the province is supporting the Take a Hike program. Instead of asking charities to navigate the jurisdiction among provinces and territories and ministries, we need to have governments able to navigate those jurisdictions themselves.
Charities are small. We are a $4.5-million organization. We are doing all we can to provide services to youth, and what we need is the funding. We need to have those barriers removed, like having to figure out which jurisdiction to go to and then, when we do get funding, being asked, “Well, what does this other jurisdiction [Technical difficulty—Editor] need?”