With all due respect, I actually asked this question--what is meant by “chronic funding pressures”--of the president of the Treasury Board. When I have an expenditure review report that suggested the ability to find $6 million a year in savings, I don't know what is meant by “chronic underfunding”. That seems like a label that is relatively convenient, if I may say, in order to justify significant increases in spending without really any detail of what those are.
On May 10th, 2010. See this statement in context.