The main difference lies in the authorities that we have under our act. We recognize that departments and Crown corporations and foundations operate in different spheres within the federal family. We have had, since 2006 I believe, a mandate to be able to, as we sometimes put it, follow the dollar through funding agreements, provided that the particular thresholds are met and that it's not one of the prohibited types of organizations that we cannot follow, like a provincial government or a municipal government.
With an organization like Sustainable Development Technology Canada and the department they work with, the area they are responsible for is an area that comes up periodically in our natural audit selection process.
In this case, this would be different from our normal audit selection process. The 2017 report would be a good example of how it comes up normally. In this case, we received allegations. We'd been monitoring what had been happening. We'd been engaging with the department. We saw the report. Along the way we had identified that we should be ready, just in case, to step in and do some audit work.
That again, I want to reinforce, was our decision; it was nobody else's decision. We made that on the basis of weighing all the factors at play here and recognizing the importance of the work that SDTC is doing.
I hope I've answered your question.