The way it has worked and the practice that we have developed is that I get lots of requests. I have many visitors who come here and there are lots of invitations. So I check with Foreign Affairs and ask, “Do you think this is a good idea?” When I had the request to sign an MOU with the Organization Department of the Communist Party of China, I went to Foreign Affairs and asked, “Is this a good idea?” They said, “Yes, absolutely, it's an excellent idea. We want to have that kind of connection.” Then we would go ahead and initiate the discussions on having a memorandum of understanding. I wouldn't sign anything until it went through Foreign Affairs.
In the case of other aid projects—and there were some others I didn't mention that were smaller, the ones that get funded by CIDA—they have gone through CIDA's whole screening process. In the case of Ukraine, for example, it's a CIDA-funded project, and our work and costs would be covered by that project—though not salaries, because once you're a public servant the salaries aren't covered.