Thank you, Madam Chair. We have an agreement with the federal government to administer a portion of the NIHB program on their behalf, and the amounts in the budget represent the estimated annual amounts that we -- that we would spend and be reimbursed. But we are always reimbursed on actuals in accordance with their program. So they apply the program, and the federal government, if they're legitimate expenses, will reimburse us. And there's an annual escalator in the agreement which you'll see between 2021-2022 and 2022-2023. And there was an error in the opening main estimates figure so that's -- we didn't have time to correct that in time for the publication. In 2021, it was higher because the federal government actually reimbursed us for the isolation costs of NIHB eligible clients during COVID. So that's additional revenue we received in 2021 specifically related to COVID. Thank you.
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