Natural Resources committee  I'd be happy to. It's all public information.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the question. To ensure completeness in the answer, you're quite right, there is $102 million in the main estimates. I should add that budget 2014 announced supplemental funding for AECL, which will essentially go to the Chalk River laboratories. That's for $117 mi

Natural Resources committee  Under any scenario, the supply of radio-medical isotopes will be an issue of attention for the government and, indeed, for global partners and for the supply chain. As the committee will know, the NRU, for example, was offline for a period of 15 months about two years ago. There

Natural Resources committee  That is an excellent question because we always make sure that we measure program results. To determine the effectiveness of a program, a distinction must be made between ethanol and biodiesel. When it comes to ethanol, we have signed 14 agreements, which is 94% of the target. W

Natural Resources committee  I'm quite happy to provide the information. I mentioned earlier that the government announced last year that $30 million would be allocated over a period of two years to do two things. One is to advertise internationally, again, about the fact that Canada is a responsible suppl

Natural Resources committee  The internship program receives $600,000 annually. It provides wage assistance to support work experience opportunities with external organizations for as many as 60 interns annually. So we essentially provide.... We have a very small program. One to two people administer it. A

Natural Resources committee  As the minister stated earlier, the ecoENERGY program for biofuels is a multi-year program. Previously, the intent regarding the program, given its design and its structure, was to decrease financial support over time. Thus, eligible companies were given a grant for their biofue

Natural Resources committee  The best person to answer the question would be the chair of the National Energy Board but I could assure the committee, or assure you through the chair, that certainly every conversation that I have had with the National Energy Board would suggest to me that the chair would be v

Natural Resources committee  It will be very brief, Mr. Chair. I will have to come back to the committee on that to give a more specific answer.

Natural Resources committee  I don't have similar numbers at my fingertips, but the targeted geoscience initiative is one that we also collaborate on with the provinces. It's a bit of an analog of GEM, where we work with the provinces. And it gets immediate leverage, because they also put money then, even be

Natural Resources committee  That's true, for example, for Sustainable, Development Technology Canada, which is funded in here. We'll provide up to a maximum of 35% of a grant for the value of a project. The other 65% has to come from investors who are actually willing to take the risk.

Natural Resources committee  There are a number of factors that will affect the budgetary resources of the National Energy Board, as with any other organization. The estimated expenditures this year have gone up to $73.3 million relative to $62.4 million before, largely because the National Energy Board this

Natural Resources committee  That's right. That's essentially going to be repaid over the next 10 years. Meanwhile, as indicated in the budget, yes, there is, for a major pipeline project for example, an 18-month period of time legislated for their review and a decision. That includes the time that the gove

Natural Resources committee  Sure. Again, you would not find the line item. Under our energy innovation programs we have funded a number of initiatives, for example, to see how one could utilize hydrogen technology and storage to facilitate wind energy deployment in isolated communities so that there's bette

Natural Resources committee  Essentially what the geomapping program does is provide the first layer of exploration, the basic information about the geology that then allows the industry to target its efforts where, based on that information, they see that there may be promise to find this or that type of mi