Without making this too technical, we prepare our report on plans and priorities in accordance with the Treasury Board Secretariat guidelines. The numbers presented there are referred to as the Treasury Board reference levels. So they're the numbers that Treasury Board has already recorded in the system for the Office of the Auditor General, as they do with any other government organization. So the numbers presented here are our reference level numbers that the government has recorded in the books at this point. They do not yet reflect any adjustments for future funding pressures, like departmental financial statements.
On May 16th, 2007. See this statement in context.