The question of the baseline of spending in IT infrastructure before the creation of Shared Services Canada is a complex one. I would say that the best attempt made to identify what it was, was in fact through the exercise to transfer those moneys from the 42 departments to Shared Services Canada. The amount in the first year...and recognizing, as you probably have noted in the various materials, it was made up of both appropriations and revenues.... We were transferred appropriations, and we weren't transferred the authority for the revenues, but that was part of what was transferred from departments. The closest they could come was the amount that was transferred to us for our first year, which was in the area of $1.8 billion.
Our appropriations have been going down from the very beginning, given that as a result of the 2012 budget exercise in our first fiscal year, we in fact turned back $75 million worth of those appropriations. And this year it will be $104 million, and next year it will be $150 million. So in fact, notwithstanding the actual spending numbers that are there, the actual spending numbers are due to things like, for example, in our first fiscal year we were able to have a carry-forward of $55 million from the previous year, based on unspent moneys by the previous departments. That gave us a little bit extra in that first year. We received some additional moneys for things like salary settlements and those sorts of things. So there have been little increases, or increases this year, as we've noted, for IT projects that were undertaken by other departments. Any increase that's happened in our appropriations has been due to projects for which we received particular funding or through carry-forwards.