That's good, because the last thing we want is to signal to government agencies that if they fail to meet the financial commitments that they put in their own business cases, Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer are going to just come to the rescue. In the real world that's not how it works. You go into the business world and you say, “Oh, I'm sorry, I missed the deadlines that I committed to in a contract and it's going to cost an extra $56 million. Can you spare that extra change?” You'd be laughed out of business. So I think that the government did exactly the right thing in insisting that the fiscal plan presented in the business plan be honoured.
On March 10th, 2016. See this statement in context.