Absolutely we maintain responsibility for overseeing their work. This is, in a way, a technical transfer. The funds are transferred from us to DFAIT to pay for the salaries of these employees. They do work for us and we have a way of holding them to account. For instance, when it comes to visa officers making decisions, their performance is reviewed and we check to make sure there's consistency and that sort of thing.
On November 7th, 2006. See this statement in context.