Natural Resources committee  Yes. If I may, Mr. Chair, and I didn't mean to avoid that part of the question, but I should just mention that the lead on the question of carbon pricing, which this government has made a decision to approach through regulation, is Environment Canada. They play the primary regul

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for your question on biofuels. I don't believe there was a reallocation in the area of ecoEnergy for biofuels, but it may be that biofuels are reflected in our supplementary estimates. With a number of these programs, the reason there is movement between the years is

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the question. At Natural Resources Canada we have been working for the last few years on a major effort to improve the performance of the federal government's regulatory process. That has been undertaken through our major projects management office. It's a very sm

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much for the question. There was indeed $1 billion allocated in Budget 2009 under the economic action plan for the clean energy fund. Perhaps I could just give you a quick update on the status of that fund. We have announced three carbon capture storage projects

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much for an excellent question. It really gets to the core of the work that's done at NRCan. Let me go back a couple of years. One thing the department undertook was to sponsor a major national panel on what Canada's priorities should be in the area of energy res

Natural Resources committee  Could I introduce--

Natural Resources committee  I've asked two colleagues to join me at the table. I'd like to introduce Jim Farrell, who's the assistant deputy minister of the Canadian Forest Service, and also Bill Merklinger, who's Natural Resources Canada's chief financial officer and ADM of corporate management and shared

Natural Resources committee  Yes, this is a very complex technology. We've made the allocations, but the projects have not come online yet. We're still at the front end of the engineering design.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, we can get those exact numbers for you.

Natural Resources committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you very much for the question. At the risk of repeating myself, the two key mechanisms are two oversight committees. One is the centre of excellence, run through our financial management branch, and the other is the transfer payment review committee, which operates at the

Public Accounts committee  Yes, I have.

Public Accounts committee  The office of energy efficiency is one of our primary areas to have responsibility for contributions and grants, and certainly the director general will know how many in the office of energy efficiency. For the balance of the department, Mr. Chair, I'd have to get back to you wit

Public Accounts committee  I want to thank the committee members for all of their questions and assure you that we in the department have put a huge effort into addressing the situation that arose between 2003 and 2005, and we've addressed it on a number of fronts. You can look at these matters through a

Public Accounts committee  Yes, that is in fact the case.