Mr. Chairman, I wouldn't want to embarrass anybody but I guess I will ask this question. We've had sort of an unusual procedure here in the process of considering this supp in that the House was asked to take note of a matter of a possible additional submission to the appropriation act before it had been submitted to the Financial Management Board. I think the Minister of Finance quite properly gave us notice of this and quite properly amended the bill, otherwise I think the department would have been in violation of the Financial Administration Act and subject to a comment by the Auditor General.

I would like to ask the Minister if he would explain how it came about that such a large submission was not included in the bill that was presented to us originally. Thank you.