If I may, no, we are not having certain programs reduced in order to write off debts. The reason you see funds available and they're assigned to these particular programs is that we try, in the course of preparing the estimates, not to ask for more appropriation than the cash that the department requires. What happens is, the department identifies a requirement to write off these debts; that's one item on the plus side of the ledger. On the other side of the ledger, we also know that the department has money they won't be spending. They won't be spending because they are re-profiling money into next year; they're not spending because there are conditions on some funds that haven't been met. So it's really more coincidental that there are these amounts of money in the departmental reference level that are not needed this year. No, it's not a case of the department cutting these programs in order to finance the write-off of the debt.
On March 1st, 2011. See this statement in context.