Yeah, so sour that when the Chair of the local IEEE Student Branch asked me to sponsor them for a Robotics Conference Registration I said sure, and that they could consider it second hand NSERC funding. The 1st place ranking for NSERC cash was icing on the cake, not lemonade. That and the CMOS funded supplementary fellowship look good on her resume, even though the financial bottom line was the same. 

Ditto for her older brother getting unexpected NSERC funding for his final Comp Sci Coop program work term. He had the job, but the NSERC cash freed up the previously committed pay for another student to get a paid job, related to their work, for the Physics Department. There can't be too many people with both NSERC and SSHRC funding on their resumes. When he was doing his master's degree his department wanted to know all the funding that all the Grad Students received, so that they could focus the available marking and tutorial pay funds on the students who needed the most support.