Justice committee  The invoice plus the A-base will cover the cost of our salaries, and operating costs, and so on and so forth, yes. We don't always use...for example, in the $296 million we may underuse it, depending on the demand from the client. That's what we're authorized to charge other departments, but we may not actually invoice those departments.

Justice committee  A contribution has more conditions attached to it than a grant. As the recipients are more stable, there's a track record. We decided that it was important to reduce the administrative burden on some of those organizations by moving to a grant, so fewer conditions are attached.

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  We have had some cost increases over the years, for example, salaries and things like that. At the same time, our budget allocated to the provision of legal services itself has not increased. If I'm not mistaken, it does decrease over time. The number of the NVA itself fluctuates from year to year, depending on what we expect in terms of demand on the part of our clients.

Justice committee  Part of that would be the impact of DRAP itself. Part of it will be the cut of the LSR, legal services review, in 2014-15. That would account for about roughly $30 million. In addition to that, we've had a number of sunsetting programs that have terminated. That would account for the difference.

Justice committee  The NVA, what we call net vote authority, the $296 million is what we expect we would be invoicing other departments for the services we provide to them in addition to our own A-base funding. Our expectation, obviously, is that we will bill that full amount against all the organizations.

Justice committee  We've gone through a number of exercises. One of them was the deficit reduction action plan that the government implemented across the government as a whole. Obviously, Justice was subject to that. We had to cut $67.5 million from our budget. Part of that was from vote 5, part of it was from vote 1, basically our operations, which we did in a series of measures.

Justice committee  If I may, I referred to 2016-17 in my answer on the aboriginal justice strategy. Obviously we're talking about the main estimates for 2015-16, so that's a small detail.

Justice committee  Yes. We have $20 million in new funding that was announced, and of this, we will be receiving $10.47 million over five years, and Public Safety will also be receiving some of that funding to the tune of $9.53 million. We will be engaged, obviously, in making sure that the money reaches the communities and the people who are directly affected by prostitution, and in trying to get people out of the practice of prostitution.

Justice committee  The kinds of services that are provided are to help people with addictions, for example, who need trauma therapy, employment training, financial literacy training, perhaps some transitional housing if people have to be relocated and taken off the streets, emergency safe houses, drop-in centres, and things like that.

Justice committee  Yes, the additional funding will be at the current level of $11 million in 2016-17. Part of that will be in grants and contributions to the tune of $9.8 million. There's also $1.2 million that will be going to operating expenditures. Those are cost-effective measures that reach 800 communities across Canada and an untold number of people directly.

Justice committee  No, we're providing money, and it's delivered by other organizations—

Justice committee  —and by us as well.

Justice committee  Indeed, in the 2015-16 main estimates, we are reflecting this $14.4 million that you're talking about. It's composed of some temporary and some permanent funding. As far as the temporary funding is concerned, we have $11.5 million for immigration and refugee legal aid for an additional two years going to 2016-17.

Justice committee  Well, we still try to perform miracles, and generally to do what we can with what we have. That is quite clear. That said, we are going to the Treasury Board to get the money allocated to us as part of that fund. That is in the works.