Mr. Lawrence, I will take that one. Nick, please jump in if you want to clarify anything I'm about to say.
I think this issue has been with us for some time. From the department's perspective, I think, Mr. Lawrence, you're probably aware that with all the respect in the world for the work of the Auditor General and her team, this is an area where I guess I would say the Government of Canada has not fully shared the analysis or the conclusion arrived at by the Auditor General, and that the government does believe it had authority under the Financial Administration Act for that payment.
All that being said, in the current year we have pursued that through supplementary estimates. I believe the Auditor General is comfortable with that path forward, and I can assure you that going forward—because these payments to Newfoundland and Labrador will continue, as you know, for some extended period of time—we are working now on finding the best way of regularizing this, fully in the spirit of the comments and concerns that have been expressed by the Auditor General. This is an issue that I think we have put behind us, and we will certainly be putting it behind us going forward.