Madam Chair, I would use the example of the oceans protection plan because we're implicitly talking about that. An announcement was made by the Prime Minister in November, I believe. In the decision-making process of the government at that point, there had been a cabinet decision to proceed with initiatives as described by the Prime Minister, Minister LeBlanc, and Minister Garneau. That initiated a process of detailed implementation planning on the part of Transport Canada, Fisheries and Oceans, Coast Guard, Natural Resources Canada, and Environment and Climate Change Canada. That is working its way through the Treasury Board process and the detailed implementation planning is coming to fruition imminently.
Given the cycles of policy decisions and implementation planning, although it was moving fast for an initiative of its complexity, it was not at a point where Treasury Board officials could put it in the main estimates, so it has to flow in the supplementary estimates. We're optimistic it could make supplementary estimates (A), but definitely, in our view, it will make either supplementary estimates (A) or supplementary estimates (B). In the meantime, in anticipation of this, we're doing the preparatory work so that once it is approved by Parliament, we can move rapidly to implement the program.