Thank you for the question.
As the President of the Treasury Board already indicated, there is a fund for the Canadian Armed Forces and for two or three other departments that are responsible for national security.
Because of the historic investment in national defence but also the need to do it quickly, I would like to share with members that supplementary estimates (C) get finalized inside government long before they get here.
This is really a fund that is necessary for the government to meet its objectives around defence spending. If a project happened to be running ahead of schedule, with services or goods delivered ahead of schedule, and the department didn't have a sufficient vote to cover it, this fund will give them access, if they request it, to do just that. As was mentioned, the government confirmed earlier this morning that it has met its 2% target for the current year, and we will come back to Parliament in the next supplementary estimates with a transparent accounting of how that fund was used.
I do not expect that you will see the full billion used, but that will be determined over the future couple of days and weeks.