Mr. Speaker, when we took office in 1993 one thing we found was that in fact a number of commitments which had been taken by the previous government had not been booked in the statements of account. As a result the deficit was in fact larger than the Canadian people understood it to be.
We took the decision at that point that we would always book any obligations of the Government of Canada so that Canadians could see them up front and they would not be hidden.
That is the process we followed in this case and we will continue to follow it.