It comes from the department. Once the government has looked at your project and says that it looks like it's pretty good, you have to negotiate a detailed contract, a legally binding contract. Once you get the provisional approval, you have enough confidence to get going and spend up to 30% of the cost of the project, knowing that, when the final contract is signed, we will honour that. It's the ability to kind of get going before you get the final contract in place.
In the case of the rapid response stream, you can actually spend up to 100% of your allocation. If you were given provisional approval that the project is good, then, provided you are willing to maybe take on some risk, you could actually get going, knowing that once the contract is signed, even if the project at that point were complete, the government would reimburse you.
It's not a perfect solution, but it's an example of efforts to try to make sure that, frankly, the kind of adjudication that's needed sometimes with these very complicated projects doesn't necessarily slow down the ability to get going and start putting shovels in the ground.