In many respects, when the supplementary estimates, or the appropriations bill to support the supplementary estimates, were not voted, and the House was dissolved, we had to look for the end of the fiscal year to the existing sources of supply and central votes, or votes that would have remained within organizations: things or tools that we call “frozen allotments”, central votes such as vote 5, which is a kind of contingency vote.
So where there were authorities linked to the expenditures and the requirements for those organizations, under the authority granted to me by the Treasury Board, we essentially depleted those votes, but they had to be tied to the activities and the authorities for which those funds could be expended. Where the funds were expended and there were no authorities allowed, then some of those initiatives were not covered, just because either the source of funds was depleted or the authorities were not available.