But maybe I could add something that would clarify it for everyone. I'll give you another clear example that came up at the Gomery commission.
There was a competition for Tourism Canada. Tourism Canada, in my day, had a budget of about $50 million to $60 million a year. They were big spenders around the world, and that's fine to bring tourism to Canada.
We had a competition. An agency out of Toronto won, and an agency out of Montreal came second, and third, fourth, fifth down the list. The policy allowed the minister, if there was a difference of less than 10%, to choose number two or number one or number three, in fact, if there was less than a 10% difference.
I, as the president of that selection committee, would send a letter to the department saying the winning agency is so-and-so. The political system came back through the Tourism Canada bureaucrats who said they didn't agree. They wanted to split it between two agencies. So they got involved in who got what in that department. One agency got Europe and Canada, and the other agency got Australia and the Far East.
That's the same process when I talk about sponsorship.