The finances of the Government of Canada in that regard don't operate like private business, nor do departments. Under parliamentary rules, all the fees we take in for processing and for applications go into the general revenue fund. Then we have to make our submissions, such as through this process of supplementary estimates and the budgets, to get what we feel we need to operate. We're competing with all the other departments for those same funds that are in general revenue. We don't get to raise money on our own and apply it to our own programs.
On November 29th, 2007. See this statement in context.