The process that the NEB follows is this: It seeks funding through supplementary estimates or estimates, and then for the most part—there may be some exceptions to this—it is able to recover that expenditure from the industry. It's like a cost-recovery program, but first you have to come and get the authority from Parliament to spend the money. It's just the way it works. In almost all cases—I hesitate to say all, just in case there is an exception—it cost-recovers that money from the industry.
On November 25th, 2014. See this statement in context.