I'd be interested in it, because at least on the environment department side, the government has been increasing the budget for the environment department year after year for the last six years, and even this year there is no reduction in the environment department budget. I cannot speak to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, however.
One thing I wonder about, though, is whether you have been looking at this from a whole systems point of view. When you talk about the reduction in technical support capacity, I'm sure you're aware that the government's responsibilities include enforcement, actually establishing protected areas, research, other conservation projects, assessing projects, things like GHG monitoring, GHG regulation, clean air and particle pollutant cleanups, contaminated site cleanups, invasive species, weather monitoring, media requests, oil sands monitoring, international negotiations, specific court-ordered actions, clean energy research, climate change reparations to other countries.
How do you propose to prioritize the technical support capacity in among those other things, sort of like draining the swamp when you're up to your hind end in alligators? What do you consider the alligator and what do you consider the swamp?