Thank you for all of that information. It’s very good. As I said, I liked the plan you put in with respect to distributing that money amongst the departments so they could plan for it accordingly.
No real question, but just a bit more of a statement. In the case of this particular item, as an example, it is something, in my opinion, that should have been able to be planned for. We’re probably going to approve it today. I see no reason not to approve it at this point, giving the department some credit, given the fact that the budget just came down and this is a new process.
In the future, as Cabinet comes to us with some of these supps where they’re asking us to draw down on that $10 million, it may not pass as easily, because we want to be sure that those items that are coming to us in the supps are in fact for emergencies: things that could not be nor would ever have been foreseen or planned for. That’s what we understood the intention was. If items come to us that clearly could have been planned for, we’ll definitely have a lot of questions on those areas, but in this case, due to the timing, not so much. I mean, it is our job to hold the government to account, so the plan was for emergencies. This doesn’t strike me as an emergency. In the future you’ll have to demonstrate to us why this one is an emergency if you’re going to expect us to put down our emergency $10 million fund.