In terms of the funding, we decided as a department that the work that needed to be done on improving the social insurance number and the integrity of the social insurance registry was of such importance that we would reassess the money we spent and we would put more money in our budget against that.
Since 2002, we have increased our administrative spending by $7 million. In addition, we have devoted $9 million to special projects, such as integrity of the SIR--studies and so forth--to make sure this was working appropriately and to smooth the way for provincial agreements. All in all, in the last four years we have spent over $16 million of internal reallocation in order to make progress on this file.
In terms of the Treasury Board, we haven't discussed a lock mechanism, as you say, with them in particular. We have not gone that route. Our route has been more to try to reach out to Canadians through communications tools--and the code is certainly part of that--in order to try to reinvigorate the appropriate use of the social insurance number.
Certainly, when it comes to our attention that improper uses have been made, we do communicate with those groups involved to remind them of what the appropriate use is.