Mr. Chair, last September, I believe, the government announced a series of cost-saving measures of program review, and I believe the total figure was in the range of $1 billion. In that was twenty point something or other million dollars that had been allocated a number of years ago for the Department of Citizenship and Immigration, RCMP, possibly CSIS, and maybe one or two other departments for implementation of comprehensive citizenship legislation. So this is money that had been allocated by a previous government many years ago but had never been used because that comprehensive citizenship legislation never came to fruition, the comprehensive bill having died on the order paper in a number of previous Parliaments.
On May 2nd, 2007. See this statement in context.