Fisheries committee  There was another portion of the program also, for 2009-10. It was a five-year program when it was introduced last year. As Mr. Bevan said, there was $8.6 million that went out on what we call the short-term program. For the long-term program, basically $3.2 million out of $6.5 m

Fisheries committee  On the longer-term program side, that money continues for another four years. As I was saying, there's $3.2 million out of $6.5 million earmarked for last year that has been spent, leaving close to $3 million; $2.9 million of that was actually re-profiled to future years, so we'r

Fisheries committee  Like I said, we had spending patterns to complete the construction--just give me a second and I will flip to the right page--and basically that was earmarked as part of our budget for the funding for the St. Andrews Biological Station. Some of the money we had put aside starting

Fisheries committee  No. The funding envelope stays the same. We're just moving the money around because the spending will happen in different years.

Fisheries committee  [Inaudible--Editor]...capital funding earmarked for that purpose, actually.

Fisheries committee  On the research aspects?

Fisheries committee  For science-based activities, what we have as part of these numbers is basically about the same thing. All science activities relating on that basis are close; if you take a look at the main estimates, you'll see that our numbers are within a couple of million dollars. To come b

Fisheries committee  Maybe I could tell you in the meantime that the $4 million has been reintroduced. The actual number is $4 million in an ongoing purpose for that under budget 2010, so it's the same amount going back in.

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  Basically, the funding allocated to the Pacific region as per the 2010-11 main estimates is $266 million. I don't have the details on the number of FTEs at this point.

Fisheries committee  Yes, I have that on another page. Actually, we went through that presentation. From a personnel perspective, I can tell you from a Pacific perspective that out of the $266 million, $179 million is affected to personnel costs--for example, salaries. Percentage-wise, we're talking

Fisheries committee  Sure.

Fisheries committee  To come back to what you said, yes, we look at every program and we do rely on certain data, such as, for example, audits and evaluations that would have been done on the relevance and effectiveness of the different programs. We take a look at it from the aspects of relevance, ef

Fisheries committee  We've actually accessed some funding, starting last year, of close to $8 million. We have $8 million earmarked for this fiscal year. We're actually in the design phase of this project. So yes, money has been accessed to start the project.

Fisheries committee  As you know, I guess, the details of it are confidential. The numbers will actually come out through budget 2011, but I think the department is well on its way to addressing strategic review. We've built a solid governance structure to address that, so we have steering committe