I'm happy to answer those questions.
The $677 million was what we carried forward last year in vote 1. That allows us to open the year. You can't carry forward zero. There is an expectation that we will have funds to open the books on day one, April 1.
Last year, we did not spend about $2.2 billion in vote 5. This year, we have that down to about $1.3 billion. At this point in the year, we are working toward reducing it below $1 billion by March 31.
Some of that is efficiencies. We've saved about $700 million on projects, and that's really good news. We've achieved and delivered the project for less money than we anticipated. That's in the $2.2 billion that you referenced.
The rest of it is projects that we are working to move. We're working with our colleagues at Treasury Board, PSPC, and PCO to move money and projects through the system more quickly. We're looking at our internal processes, as I said previously, to increase the speed with which smaller, less risky, less expensive projects can move through the defence system.
The CFO, my senior associate deputy minister, and the vice chief of the defence staff are running a program where they bring forward projects and move them through the system more quickly. They reduce the number of steps in the system, not to reduce the oversight, but to ensure that we don't let things sit for too long in the bureaucracy, that is, National Defence.