My understanding, Mr. Chair, is that the funding in budget 2022 was allocated through the Treasury Board submission process to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans for five years and ongoing. Under the convention, the commission is to develop its budget, which includes activities for sea lamprey control, and then submit that budget to the contracting parties, Canada and the United States, for approval.
What we've seen from Global Affairs in our experience with other bilateral institutions is that there are a number of discussions that take place throughout that process so that it's very, very clear what the budget requests will be looking for and that the governments will be in a position to approve that request.