Again, thank you for the question.
As you may know, the Courts Administration Service has no permanent funding for many of its activities, including the costs of the four prothonotaries and the equivalent three deputy judges currently used by the Federal Court.
These expenses will be related to the judicial appointments for their prothonotary salaries, their associated benefits, deputy judges' fees, and support for these appointments, including hearing-related costs, court reporting, and transcript and translation services. In addition, there is appropriation, of course, for court security inasmuch as there's a heightened awareness of the challenges with respect to security and the heightened threats against individuals who serve and work with our courts. It's a fairly modest sum in terms of the importance of what they do, but the $2.4 million will go towards those objectives.
Again, it's important that we are very careful you don't—the head of the CAS is here. We are very careful in terms of our relationship with the courts and the independence of those individuals who serve the courts. Our analysis of that request for those functions that I've just indicated look very reasonable. So I felt it was very appropriate to include this as part of supplementary estimates (B).
Thank you again for the question.