If you would allow, Mr. Chair, I think I could add a bit more precision on operating versus non-operating expenditures. For ACOA, their total budget for grants and contributions is $243 million, and they have $64 million for operations, which is 20% of the total, according to the figures I have here. I'm not sure exactly what's in front of you. You might actually be taking operating expenditures as a percentage of the increase in the supplementary estimates, but that isn't necessarily the entire overall grants and contributions budget of ACOA. They operate at similar levels of overhead as others to run the program. If you look at $1 billion as the entire budget of all the regional agencies, about $800 million is for grants and contributions and the rest is for them to operate, which is pretty much a consistent percentage, give or take, depending on their geography across Canada. Hopefully that helps.
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