The information you have, that we gave the committee, is the same information we gave the Parliament Budget Officer at the end of October. Because he asked for claims dated in September and we didn't have claims yet, we couldn't respond to his request, so at the end of October we gave him, as a first tranche, all the application data as of September 22. So this information here is information from the application of the approved projects under the stimulus fund as of September 22.
What we since have provided to the Parliamentary Budget Officer are two things. Last week we met with his office and gave him a very detailed technical briefing on the program, walked him through the whole program, how it works, and showed him how it operates. We've now provided him with the claims information he requested in September, which was the first round of claims information, and that covers about 1,750 projects.
That was information that was provided to us in late August and the middle of September. Some of it would have been collected early in July, the middle of July, so it represents the state of projects from, I'd say, July to about mid-August. That's the information we just gave him and that he will now go through, and that covers about 1,750 projects.
We now are getting to the second round of claims. Remember they have to do it quarterly. Before they would do it once a year; this program, it's every quarter. The next quarter was November, so we're now just going through the next round of reporting and claims from all the provinces.