Mr. Chair, our department has many staff who are located in and of course work out of our missions abroad. I think we have the second-largest footprint, after Global Affairs, in terms of the number of Canadian-based staff working on immigration processing abroad, including locally engaged staff as well. We have a memorandum of understanding with Global Affairs in terms of funding that we actually provide on a regular basis to cover those costs, whether it's property growth, opening of new visa offices, or as well, the electronic travel authorization. These are increased costs to support the work we do.
At the same time as well, Global Affairs actually then transfers back to us changes in terms of funding levels where we've had visa office closures, for example, or where there's been a workload redistribution, so it's kind of a net effect. There have been funds that we have provided to Global Affairs, and Global Affairs has transferred money back to us. What you see is basically the net amount that's reflected in terms of this particular transfer. Essentially, it's just reflecting the amount of support services required to support Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship staff in our missions abroad.