Environment committee  Not necessarily.

Environment committee  Mr. Chairman, I'm not familiar with the particular ATIP request, but if it was advice to the minister and the cabinet that accounted for the particular information not being released, I'm afraid I would still be bound by that restriction now in answering the question.

Environment committee  I cannot in detail at the moment, although my colleague might. I know that the primary distinction would be between our own departmental investments or spending and environment-related initiatives that were spent across the Government of Canada.

Environment committee  I will ask Mrs. Cléroux to elaborate on that. She administers that program.

Environment committee  Chairman, I think we may have an issue with the number. You can explain this. Thank you.

Environment committee  Mr. Chairman, I apologize if we have not responded quite as quickly as we might. We come to the table thinking of the numbers on an annual basis, and as Ms. Ruta has pointed out, between the mains and the various supplementaries they can sometimes come in different tranches over

Environment committee  There are two dimensions to this, Mr. Chairman. The first dimension was an investment, which is still rolling out and being implemented in Budget 2007, to increase the capacity by about 50%, if my memory serves, through environmental enforcement officers on both the environment

Environment committee  It is to support them in their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Environment committee  Mr. Chairman, I would have to clarify or qualify—I hope not to disagree with the honourable member—on one point. In the sense that a provincial action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions may be in an area of jurisdiction such as to provide for municipal transportation infrastructu

Environment committee  The federal government is confident it has the constitutional jurisdiction to regulate in the large industrial sectors using CEPA. That is what our regulatory plan—

Environment committee  The government has published its regulatory plan under the authority of CEPA, and is confident that this is an appropriate policy response for the problems we face.

Environment committee  The intention is to roll it out everywhere by the end of 2008-2009. Cécile may know more.

Environment committee  Mr. Chairman, I take the committee back to the first principles on this: that in the area of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, provincial governments have many of the direct policy instruments—

Environment committee  I'd be pleased to do that, Chair. The principle, I think, of the vehicle scrappage program is clear: it is primarily to take older, polluting vehicles off the road, taking advantage of the greater fuel efficiency and cleaner emission standards that are applied to newer models. W

Environment committee  I agree, Mr. Chairman, that it is a different instrument of public policy. In this particular case, it would be the normal responsibility of a provincial Auditor General to ensure or to measure the expenditure for environmental policy, in this case for GHG reductions, using money