I have only one question.
You said that it would have to be urgent and that there should be no other spending authority.
If I understand correctly, when you decide to use vote 5, it is on a first-come, first-served basis. The departments would submit their requests without any strategic planning. This would be the case, for example, if you decided to give that money to National Defence or to the RCMP for security reasons. All, to take another example, the government could decide to improve the benefits paid to low-income Canadians, as a welfare policy. So, it would be first-come, first-served.
About the Governor General's special warrants, is the spending authority given in the same manner or is there some strategic planning? We're talking here about a rather significant amount, about 16 billion $, which is more than pocket change. How would it be done?