The collective agreements which have been ratified and which you see in the Supplementary Estimates are collective agreements which go back a certain amount of time and were negotiated based on the former Expenditure Restraint Act, which kept wage increases at 1.5%. That was negotiated until the end of 2009-2010. The Board must now make a decision with respect to 2008-2009, in terms of retroactive payments under collective agreements.
With respect to 2009-2010, the Treasury Board has already announced that the 1.5% salary increases that were negotiated under collective agreements are still a legal responsibility. However, the affected entities—departments, Crown corporations and agencies or the House of Commons—will have to absorb that 1.5% within their internal budget. So, we will have to find the money to pay that 1.5% to people in 2009-2010. The decision has not yet been made by the Board. That will be duly discussed to determine how the Board intends to respond to what the Minister of Finance is asking, namely that it be subject to the same parameters as those put in place by the Minister for the public service.