Status of Women committee  Public accounts had a lapse of $3.6 million. About $2.4 million was carried forward into future years to be used for projects. The actual was much less.

Status of Women committee  In terms of the $2.4 million that was carried forward, $1.4 million is for this fiscal year and $1 million is for next year, for partnerships. Because we have multi-year partnerships, we need to put the money into the years in which the partnership agreements will need it.

Status of Women committee  Right now, it's $31.4 million.

Status of Women committee  Do you want me to answer that one first?

Status of Women committee  There was a lapse of $3.6 million in the public accounts, but $2.4 million of that was carried forward to this fiscal year. We have multi-year projects and we wanted to put the money in the years where we thought it would be used.

Status of Women committee  I'm Cindy Paquette, with Status of Women Canada, corporate services. There was no cut made to the policy section. Last year we had to take the internal services and pro-rate them over the two main business lines, which were the women's program and policy. This year we were asked to separate them out and to put a separate line in for internal services.

Status of Women committee  Treasury Board has a definition of internal services. It is all the corporate functions—the human resources, the finance, the IM/IT, the administration, records management, communications services, management, audit and evaluation, accommodation. It's all of the common things that every department has, and they're called internal services.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  In 2006-07, we had grants and contributions of $11.8 million, and then the rest would have been operating expenses. The total budget was $24.6 million, and it included the Sisters in Spirit initiative and the women's program.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  Yes. I think it was a little over $11 million at the time before the cut, yes.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  It was part of the new money announced in the budget, and we didn't ask for the full $5 million in 2007-08. We asked for $3 million, and then we asked for $7 million in 2008-09.