There are adjustments in the documents for changes in the public debt charges. They show up in the Department of Finance votes. Public debt charges are statutory--not voted in the first place--and we report them in here. They are also well documented in the public accounts. I can refer you to table 3.8 in the public accounts, which breaks down all these debt charges.
They stem from a change in the way the EI account is handled as a result of changes to legislation, moving to a new EI operational account. The old EI account was taken out of the estimates, if you wish. The old EI account surplus was consolidated with the previous accumulated deficit. All of that came out and a new EI account was put in place. As a result of that, the EI account does not pay interest to the Consolidated Revenue Fund.
Because of that--this becomes very technical--there's a change in the way we use the numbers we get from Finance in the budget for the public debt charges. It just so happened in the past that the interest and accrual adjustments offset each other. Now, with no interest coming from the new EI account, that offset is not there and we have to reflect a different number in estimates.
So it's really going from accrual to cash, and there's a different type of consolidation because it's a different account. It's not a change in accounting. By the way, it was all audited by the Auditor General in the public accounts. We're just reflecting it here in the estimates.