Foreign Affairs committee  As I said before, the problem we have is planning. At the beginning of the year, although we have our board adopt a budget, we adopt a budget with the presumption that we will get this money. We're not sure we're going to get it. So we're always kind of on a tightrope here. And a

Foreign Affairs committee  Not really. I'll explain it more clearly. The way we operate is we use the Government of Canada's pay services to do the salaries for our staff, and we're invoiced every second week. So for the first ten months of the year we don't pay them back. We're expecting money from the

Foreign Affairs committee  It is very difficult. We operate on assumption. We assume that lawmakers want us to have that level of funding. So we operate as if the funding has been confirmed, even though approval is still pending. It is always quite unsettling, but that is how we operate.

Foreign Affairs committee  It's new since this committee has gotten us an increase in our funding. This increase was never consolidated. It came directly from CIDA. Before, we only got it from one source and that was from the Department of Foreign Affairs.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes.

Foreign Affairs committee  As it was mentioned before, we just learned this week that Minister Oda assigned the part of our allocation that comes from CIDA. This year we heard that we would get full funding in October. Last year we heard in January. This is very hard, because our budget is for the full $9.