Environment committee  Yes. The $31 million consists of initiatives that will find administrative efficiencies throughout the organization.

Environment committee  Some of these examples include the reduction in travel expenditures, reduction in the use of professional services, consolidation of our locations, saving $5 million—

Environment committee  The proposals are over three years and 2012-13 is the first year of implementation, so what have been implemented to date are mostly on the administrative efficiencies side, and the programs have three years to completely implement those changes. So year one is a lot of the admin

Environment committee  In year two and three, we look for reducing redundancies in our reporting, focusing on our core mandate and where services can be provided by other parties—stakeholders and more appropriate levels of government. Those types of programs will be reduced.

Environment committee  Ordinarily, we look for the main estimates to be approved as soon as possible to allow us to then work through our own budgets and planning for the coming year. We will go on the basis that these numbers are approved, but to wait until June may be a little difficult for us to man

Environment committee  Oil sands monitoring is received through vote net revenues that are not present in the main estimates numbers before you. So those are incremental costs that will be covered by industry through our authorities for vote net revenues. Right now the main estimates do not include th

Environment committee  The nature of these expenses is incremental based on the agreement we'll sign with the province and what we will bill industry. They're incremental activities that the department is engaging on for oil sands monitoring; they're not present in the numbers at all.

Environment committee  Thank you, Minister. The estimates are tabled in the House of Commons by the president of the Treasury Board. They're made up of three parts. The first part is the government expense plan. This plan highlights an overview of the federal spending and summarizes the relationship