Thanks for the question.
Generally speaking—I'm not speaking about Marine Atlantic specifically—what's at play is incremental funding. Departments, corporations all have a base amount of funding they count on. The variance you'll see in departments from one year to the next, or in crown corporations, is incremental funding, sunset funding, as the minister mentioned. That's really the delta that's at play.
It's not full stop, because they don't have certainty. Crown corporations will make plans based on the past, and wait to hear on budget day what's at play in terms of new initiatives or incremental funding.