Let me explain.
First of all we have an A-base budget, which is composed of vote 1: budgets, salaries, and maintenance. We have a small budget at the coast guard for grants and contributions, of which we spent it all, almost to the dollar. It goes mostly to the coast guard auxiliaries.
We also have the capital investment portion and we have the B-base budget, which is composed of a big chunk of money that's part of the $5.2 billion announced in budget 2012. Why is it that you see those big movements of money? I think Marty explained it earlier in his presentation. It's cash management and it's to move the money around according to the schedule of the shipyards. For instance we may have planned earlier.... We have to do those papers way in advance, so we proposed that we were going to spend a lot of money on the OFSV, the offshore science vessels. In discussion with the shipyard we agreed that we cannot start the building now. We have to start the building a bit later. That forces us to move the money from one year to another year.
No money is lost there. There's only one little bit of money that's lapsed and it was by design. If I go back to the vote 1, last year, we had a big chunk of money to do the Zalinski operation. We had received from the government $46.4 million specifically to remove the oil from the Zalinski, which is located south of Prince Rupert. We did that operation and there was less oil than what we had figured originally. We finished with $22.9 million less than the $46.4 million we were given. That was lapsed, meaning it was returned. In the last few years, that's the only time where we lapsed in the vote 1 by more than 1%. We're within the 1%.
If you take this out of my budget we're within 1%. We're never going to be at 0% because it's too dangerous to go above and to spend more than the allocated budget. It's very prudent to be within. The government procedures and the budgetary process allow us to go 5% under and to carry forward this 5% amount. In our case we're managing our budget so closely that we're within 1%.