Mr. Chair, given that whenever the government announces new money, we pretty well need to have the PBO, the AG and KPMG certify that it is in fact new money. Also given that the CIDA budget has been on a steady state of decline from about $5 billion to $3.5 billion now and given that the minister has to my knowledge not received an order-in-council that this is fresh money, it therefore follows the new money that has been announced is not actually new money, that it has come from somewhere. I suggested to the parliamentary secretary that it was actually coming out of the frozen money that was held back from the current government in Mali.
When the parliamentary secretary says this is new money, does the hon. member believe her?