I have a comment with two elements. We share the concern about the lack of clarity, I think, over some of these transfers. People may think there are conditions attached to them when there may not be. So we have a report actually coming--you'll see at the end of the list--in November of this year, which is a study of federal government transfers, including certainly all the major transfers, to indicate to Parliament whether there are conditions or not. Then it will be up to Parliament, of course, to decide if it wishes to put conditions in when it votes for these transfers.
The second issue revolves around the accounting for this. The federal government, if there are no conditions when that transfer is made, records the transfer as an expense. The issue has been in the recipient provinces. There is a debate going on now because some of the provinces are actually spreading out these revenues over several years. The debate is as to why, if there is no condition, they wouldn't be recording it as revenue all in the year they receive it. This is a project that has been going on I think for four or five years now. There is great debate in the community. There's a lot of debate, particularly from governments and preparers of financial statements who do not want to see this money come in as revenue, for a number of reasons. There's balanced budget legislation that it could affect. There will be a lot of variability in their finances, but there's a great resistance in the community to this. I'm hopeful it can get resolved, but we may have to wait until there's actually an international standard on all this before it is resolved here in Canada.