For six years that was interim funding provided to the provinces and territories on an annual basis. The government decided to make that interim amount permanent, in order to stabilize the funding, because from year to year they were never sure that interim money was permanent. Now it's clearly permanent. There's clearly $111 million in permanent money in our department's A-base that's available for the provinces and territories.
On November 29th, 2007. See this statement in context.