Madam Speaker, the way I read the budget, it is pretty simple. It is $11.5 billion over five years, but upfront, the very first year, it is a payment of $3.5 billion.
In other words, provinces can access not only the $2 billion over each of the next five years, but they can get an advance of $3.5 billion upfront.
For my province of Manitoba, that means a total of $425 million, which is not bad.