Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As the Minister pointed out, the work plan for the summer project had been discussed at FMB and had been approved in principle. We then undertook to initiate the work and to cost out the work plan in adequate detail for the Financial Management Board. The September 26th date is the date that the special warrant was signed by the Commissioner. That is the date that appears on the document. The date it went to FMB may have been somewhat before that but it was in September that the Financial Management Board gave the final approval to the dollars associated with the work plan, although the work plan had been approximately quantified for them at the outset of the summer.

With respect to the Financial Administration Act, the authority exists to expend money within the appropriation subject to the purpose of that appropriation. The key consideration for us was to get authority for an additional appropriation prior to us hitting a level of spending that we could not have accommodated should that special warrant not have been approved. We feel that we adhered to that provision of the act.