Thank you very much, guests. We're an interesting committee because we ask for lots of paper, and while I think we are entitled to a great need to know, I wish I had as much time to read as the quantity we ask for. Wisdom will prevail in its own way, though, I'm sure.
I have a couple of questions, if I could.
In clarification of your first request, which has to do with additional costs to support ministers' offices, you indicate in your report, Madame MacPherson, that PCO is requesting funding for five ministers' offices, including the newly created Office of the Minister of State for Democratic Reform. It couldn't absorb all the cost within the existing appropriations. Why not? Did it become a function of timing? What exactly was it that made this have to come in as part of the estimates?