Well, thank you. That's the way I read it too, and I just wanted to hear it straight up, because it seems to me, in the three and a half decades I've been in public life, that whenever we're faced with a public challenge, the first thing we do is to get a strategy, to get a plan, and then start working at getting the funding. And if we can't get all the funding up front, then there is a phase-in and we can get into the politics of when that money kicks in.
However, the idea that we don't do a strategy because the money is not there up front makes no sense at all to me. I will turn to the deputy.
Help me understand why, when there were repeated recommendations that there needed to be a national strategy, your department didn't do a strategy because you didn't have sufficient funds. I don't get it.