Yes, certainly. Thank you for the question. I'd be happy to respond.
NRCan is responsible for making these statutory payments to Nova Scotia and to Newfoundland and Labrador in an amount equal to royalty and other payments received by the federal government from offshore oil and gas activities. The level of these payments is influenced by the production levels of each offshore board, as well as by the oil and natural gas prices. The variance you can observe year to year is really related to the production levels and to what the price of natural gas is, which is quite volatile, as you well know, and of oil, which continues to climb.
The offshore accords with Nova Scotia and with Newfoundland and Labrador provide that revenues from the offshore should flow to the respective provinces as if the resources were on land. It's essentially the same regime.