Thank you, Mr. Blaney. There are two parts there.
First of all, with respect to requirements from RCMP in vote 1, their operating, versus vote 5, their capital expenditures, every organization that has capital requirements above $5 million has a separate capital vote, and that is a starting point.
Secondly, what we have done over the last couple of years is worked with departments to ensure that they are using that capital vote in a consistent way, in accordance with our TB policies and accounting rules, so this is really a question of taking some money that had previously been under their operating vote. It was quite properly part of their capital expenditures and should be recorded in the capital vote.
That reflects the increase for the RCMP.
As we know, budgets of successive governments will make investments in the area of security and the well-being of Canadians, so there have been announcements in recent budgets with respect to RCMP programming. With respect to federal costs for contract policing—this is our policing obligations in the provinces—there is an increase of $37.4 million in vote 1 this year for the RCMP to respect those federal obligations for contract policing.