Mr. Chairman, the process we used was, as Members highlighted, using one-third of the amount we would normally use during a fiscal year. The reason there are some areas of going over would be, for example, if we’re going to enter leases for facilities or renew any of our existing leases through, for example, Public Works and Services. They have to enter into agreements for a full year, and it would be difficult to try to do a month-by-month process. Some of the contracts, as-and-when contracts, as we go out to people for work during the summer into the year require an annual appropriation. For Municipal and Community

Affairs, for example, because they fund their regional operations in their first quarter to a large amount, that’s why they’d get more of their dollars.

The exercise we go through and the reason we do that is, for example…. Well, the rule would be that without the authority to spend the money from this House, departments could not enter beyond the month-by-month situation. So no department can spend dollars unless this House has given approval, and that’s been taken into consideration when there are contractual obligations that run beyond the first three months of our operation. Thank you.