It really depends on the various votes or various decisions. When there's a program that is approved, a multi-year program, the funds are voted year by year. That's what I'm coming back to, the comment made by the former chair, when he said, “Mr. St-Jean, we vote money year by year”. So a program can be announced, but you cannot appropriate it on a multi-year basis.
It really depends. When you're working, for example, with CIDA, if you're working with a third party, if you're working with an arm's-length kind of organization, you might be making a payment this year and recording the expense this year, if it's no longer under your control. This is all the debate about foundations. So it's complex.