Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I did have a chance to question quite extensively on this special warrant for the hydro initiative yesterday and I do not want the Minister to have to reiterate everything he said and go through this again. I do have one question from his answers here today, in that he indicated some of the urgent nature was due to the summer assemblies and in fact, work had been going on even prior to those summer assemblies and that he could have charged some of this work to ministerial travel but this seemed like the appropriate place to charge it.

It occurs to me that the special warrant was approved by FMBS on September 26th, so all of this money that was being spent up to that point had not been approved by anybody. I do not know the Financial Administration Act inside and out, but it would seem to me that there has to be some stipulation under the FAA if the Minister and the department are going to spend money, that this be approved by FMBS. In fact, this was not and we know it was not until the 26th of September, not much more than a month ago. A lot of this money was being spent without any authorization. Is that the case?