Thank you.
Shared Services Canada does include vote-netted revenue as part of the funding it uses to operate. That's due to two things. Number one, some of the funding that was transferred to Shared Services Canada from the 43 departments is made up of revenue from those departments. To use HRSDC as an example, in terms of the funding transferred to Shared Services Canada it would have included appropriations as well as revenues that it receives. The EI fund, for example, is one such revenue source. We also receive revenue for non-mandatory optional services that we offer on a cost-recovery basis to departments.
When Shared Services Canada was first established, one of the first things we had to do was to go to Treasury Board and get authority to respend revenue. That was done very quickly, within about three months, and at that time the Treasury Board gave us the authority for the first two years only. We are required to go back to Treasury Board this fall and renew that authority to respend revenue.