Justice committee  The five-to-one ratio was developed over an analysis of several years' worth of data. Which data? It covers the types of cases we have, the type of complexity we have, where we prosecute, and also the direct and downstream impacts of the work performed by investigative agencies, number one being the RCMP, for example.

Justice committee  Yes, I could provide--

Justice committee  I could provide a note, following the notes I have, quite quickly.

Justice committee  The net voted revenues you are referring to, to the tune of $11.3 million, if I remember correctly—

Justice committee  That is an authority that we need. It's not only to recover some of the costs of our prosecutions that we do in the name of or on behalf of our regulatory agencies. It is to give us the authority to spend it. We need to recover some of the costs that we incur, especially in regulatory prosecutions, but we need to have the legal authority to spend these recoveries toward salaries, hence it is called “net voted”.

Justice committee  Some of the funding base we have we refer to as sunsetted initiatives; i.e., we receive funding for three or four years subject to an evaluation and a renewal. When an initiative ends, let's say, in 2008-2009, we cannot, of course, include the same level by way of indication, even, for 2009-2010, because we don't have the authority to have these resources; they're subject to renewal, either though an MC or other means.