For the vast majority of those revenues, I'll use the example of our research centre in Quebec. It's at Saint-Hyacinthe and it's a food research centre. A lot of private sector industries use our facilities to develop different types of products. They rent our space at market value. They use our equipment or facilities, and sometimes, the time of our scientists.
For some of the revenues that are generated, the department cannot re-spend those revenues if they are generated in the same fiscal year; these are deposited in the CRF. Under an MOU we have with the Treasury Board, we can re-spend those funds earned the previous year in the current year. That, again, is to reinvest in the science that's developed in the department.
Not all revenues are the same, but I would say that this is for our science group; if it's in that branch, it gets cut.... We have other organizations, like that of my colleague here, where the revenues are called “vote-netted revenue” and can be spent in the same fiscal year, but that's not the nature of the revenues that are listed here.