Madam Chair, I think those figures relate to CIC's budget as a whole and not just to the refugee assistance program.
There are a number of reasons for there being a lapse in our budget. Some money is what would be referred to as “ring-fenced” for special purposes. For instance, in health programs the moneys are fenced and, if they are not spent in that particular area, can't be reallocated within the department to use for other things. Those allocations account for some of the lapses.
Others are in other areas, and we may move back to settlement services with respect to some of this. We have seen some lapses in settlement services of funds provided: cases of organizations thinking they were going to be able to spend more money than they did and those funds not being completely spent within the year; sometimes delays in our getting funds out through a call for proposals will also account for some of the slippage in funds.
We monitor the situation very closely with respect to settlement dollars or our settlement envelope. I'm happy to report that this fiscal year it looks as though we will have much less of a lapse than we have had in the past. Traditionally, our lapse has been small on settlement programming; it's well less than 5% and probably less than 3%. That is where we are on this, and this year we will squeak in even tighter in spending every penny that is there for settlement programming.