Natural Resources committee  Mr. Chair, with regard to climate change adaptation, there is an envelope of $35 million over five years for Natural Resources Canada. This was a new program instituted as of budget 2011 and some of the changes from year to year simply reflect the profile of the funding. Some y

Natural Resources committee  That's a fair comment, but simply to put this into context—

Natural Resources committee  I was mentioning to an honourable member earlier that these amounts are used, for example, to expand our presence in other markets. I mentioned the exponential growth in exports to China, which is basically transforming the industry in British Columbia at this time and having som

Natural Resources committee  I'll have to look into the issue of whether or how statistics would have been taken off the website. I'm not aware of that, so I'll have to look into it.

Natural Resources committee  Sure. I have no problem getting back. In fact, I may be learning something in the process, because I didn't know those stats were removed from the website. The other thing I would say, Mr. Chair, and I think it's acknowledged by the industry and by others, is that there are a nu

Natural Resources committee  That's right. Many of these other organizations also are represented on the board of FPInnovations, so it is very much the place where you have discussions with the industry around areas where Canada could best advance its interests globally and in Canada.

Natural Resources committee  Well, again, we know now from the projects we've already funded that they can produce the technetium-99, which is the substance that goes into a patient's body. We know they can produce it and they can replicate that process. The question now is about ensuring that you would ha

Natural Resources committee  Yes. In total, we have to eliminate 250 positions within the department as a result of the 2012 budget and the action we have agreed to take to reduce the deficit. The adjustments have already started. We had to and will have to make other adjustments to take into account additi

Natural Resources committee  Number one, there had been a number of very significant commitments made for the forest sector over the last number of years. There was the $1 billion for the pulp and paper green transformation program which has been fully disbursed. That has helped mills across the country impr

Natural Resources committee  As we indicated on our website, the envelope at the outset was $400 million. Of that amount, about $185 million will have been spent.

Natural Resources committee  One very important part of the grants and contributions money is funding for forest product innovation, which is the largest and I think most successful partnership for forest research and development in the world between governments and the private sector. Under this $54 milli

Natural Resources committee  We have other programs that are more on the basis of.... We've had the investment in forest industry transformation, for example, which was announced in budget 2010, I believe, and was $100 million for four years; that one was kind of on the basis of applications coming in. The

Natural Resources committee  The full amount will be used to strengthen safety measures and increase the number of checks and inspections. I mentioned it earlier, and it's a matter of increasing the number of inspections from 100 to 150, and the number of completed checks from 3 to 6. The entire amount will

Natural Resources committee  No, no part of those amounts is for advertising. The National Energy Board may have measures like that on its website. But overall, it's to have the labour force necessary to ensure safety and, in turn, reassure Canadians.

Natural Resources committee  To give…