My understanding is that this initiative is still in play, but it's under Foreign Affairs and/or CIDA and not in International Trade. They were the kinds of costs that could not be covered by warrants. As you perhaps know, special warrants require a very high standard in terms of what is legal as a special warrant. It has to be urgently and immediately required in the public good, and you couldn't make that argument with those particular payments.
On June 5th, 2006. See this statement in context.