It would have been before that. So yes, and from all of those points of view, this $8.3 million is appreciated. However, in this period, we have to deal with things like some new audit mandates, the infrastructure bank, the Windsor-Detroit bridge as that gets up and running.
There are some things there that our new financial statement audit mandates that we have to do. There is the extra work that we now have to do in auditing the payroll expenses of the federal government because of the Phoenix system and the change in the way that system manages payroll. That takes us much more time and effort.
Over the last number of years, to keep our number of performance audits up to a level to provide to the committee, we have had to let slide some of our knowledge of business work, wherein we really try to get in and understand what's going on in departments without producing an audit report. That's something we're going to have to figure out how to get back. We can go for a year or two without doing as much of that as we should, but at some point our knowledge of the whole government big picture will become a bit stale. We need to figure out how to go back and get that knowledge.
That's why we used the word “some” in there. The funding is going to help us. As you said, it's the first time we've received an increase in a number of years, but we do have numerous demands on us to be able to meet our legislative mandate.