Since Alister has been answering a lot of questions on the economic stimulus package at various committees over the last number of weeks, I'm sure he has probably responded to this, so I'll turn to him.
That has been part and parcel of the work we've done through the secretariat and the board. Yes, we have moved up the processes to ensure we get the appropriate authorities, but as part of doing that, we also wanted to ensure we undertook the proper due diligence in our assessments and providing advice to the Treasury Board about a given program, the terms and conditions. Were we comfortable with them; do we feel they have the appropriate oversight in place as they go forward with those? So while we've moved up the process, we've tried to maintain our level of due diligence.
You heard the Comptroller General talk about how we've been working with departments to ensure that their due diligence is also being undertaken at the front end by having the internal audit committees review the terms and conditions to see if there are any problems from a control point of view. The chief financial officer has being very involved in looking at these programs as they go forward. And I think that has been our concern: that while there is a need to spend--we all believe we need to spend as quickly as we can--there's also a need to ensure there's the appropriate prudence and due diligence. So it's finding that balance, and I think we have done that overall, program by program, through what departments are being asked to do and what we've done at the Treasury Board Secretariat through my analysts, all my support, who provide the advice on each program as they're coming through to the board.
So that's where we are. It is clearly a higher level of risk, but I think we feel quite comfortable overall that we have found that balance.