Mr. Chair, to start, I would remind the committee that those funds were always approved by Parliament every year. The spending was always approved, and with all due respect, I think that raises the broader question about approval and review of estimates by parliamentary committees, the quality of the information that is given to them, the level of detail so that they understand what it is they are actually approving. The way the information was often presented, people couldn't know what the spending was actually for.
So I think there's a question around information to parliamentarians and their ability to review the estimates.