I understand, if you have other relationships, other than the machinery of government transferring funds from the treasury to the operations of a binational or multinational commission for anything, that you might need a memorandum of understanding or a contract. It's a contractual relationship to deliver sea lamprey control, science or other things.
The argument is specifically around the machinery-of-government function. I know of no other situation where the authority rests with a certain department and an MOA is needed to codify the relationship. I've seen the main estimates of the IJC. They're very transparent. There's one line where the funds are transferred. Why that is not the case for the DFO is what I think I and we all fail to understand.