I'm not sure, out of all these comments, which ones I should treat as questions, Mr. Chairman, but I will go to the last question, I guess.
I can say that we have not come to the rescue of any provinces. We have been buying short-term securities from the market directly, as the provinces have been issuing them, as a form to add extra liquidity to the system. As I was saying before, the strains we are looking at are not strains related to borrower strain. The strains are that across the entire network or the entire system, everybody in times like this goes to more liquid positions. That's when they are selling their stocks, when they are selling their bonds and when they are adjusting their positions, just when they are drawing their credit lines. A firm with a committed credit line with their bank several weeks ago would see the trouble coming, draw their credit line right to the maximum and then just park the money.
Well, the banks have to fund that in some way. They don't just pull it out of their vault or their deposits. What they do is they go to the market to fund that. Those markets were jammed up because of so many people throughout the economy—and I'm talking about people—acquiring additional liquidity. It's the central bank's job in that situation to provide those needs. The way we do that is by acquiring the assets, the illiquid or relatively illiquid assets, that the market is providing up. Our balance sheet expands at that time, which is what central banks do. Then, at a future time when those tensions ease back, no one will need the liquidity. The firm that drew its entire $100-million credit line will put the money back, pay back the credit line, and then the bank will have all that money to put back out into the market. That's when those assets get reabsorbed. This is how a liquidity provision takes place.