I'd like to make a few comments and then ask Mr. White, our chief financial officer, to provide the details on the financial position of the agency.
It's critical for the committee to recognize that we have seen significant growth. We owe a lot of credit for that to this committee and the government over the past number of years. We were provided with tied funding to address specific circumstances. The agency has worked hard to implement this funding. It has allowed us to provide some ongoing capacity and infrastructure that didn't previously exist. This will sustain us in the future. It will ensure that we continue to provide the outcomes that the committee and Canadians are looking for in food safety and animal health protection.
As our estimates show, while there is basic funding, there are other attributes associated with supplementary estimates. The agency has been asked to deal with some aspects of zoonotic diseases, areas where we had short-term plans put in place to respond to immediate events. We were also asked to come forward with a longer-term strategy related to BSE and other zoonoses this fall. We would expect that with the support of this committee and the government these measures will over time play on those bottom lines.
I would like to ask Gord to give more precise information on where the funding is, where it's leaving the organization, and the adjustments that are being made. We were one of the first agencies to go through the strategic review process on expenditure management, the re-profiling of some of the moneys internally from some of the lower-performing priority programming. We will be transitioning into some of the critical areas of interest to the committee.