Mr. Chairman, I would like to thank the Minister for bringing that motion forward and for restoring some of the money that we wanted to see in that program. It is still unfortunate that it is not the $1,000,000 we had last year, but this is certainly better than nothing that was there a short while ago.
To hear that it has gone into the base is a significant improvement.
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I appreciate the commitment that was made, because this is in fact base funding and will be there for some time.
One question I have is that because this program was always funded on an ongoing basis or annual basis, a number of groups who had projects that were completed had sent applications into the department for more funding, only to have them rejected because the program had been sunsetted.
The question for the Minister is will those groups now have to reapply for the funding? Will there be a new call for projects to be funded? Or will the department look at those applications that they already have received this fiscal year, and consider them for being funded under this program?