Environment committee  Sure.

Environment committee  I can also say, as the minister indicated, that in the last three or four years we've really ramped up in the number we've put up. Our plan over the next three years is to make a very intensive effort to get them out, because we understand we're overdue.

Environment committee  No, we have not done that cost assessment. I think that for the moment we are just trying to make sure we undertake our statutory responsibilities. Our goal is to try to get the recovery strategies out. We're cognizant of the fact that there's an increasing court pressure. But ou

Environment committee  I don't know if I'd put the word “most” in without having the document in front of me, but in a number of key areas we are seeing improvement. What I would say is that we're doing a better job of monitoring. There may be some cases where we're seeing negative things happening, bu

Environment committee  I guess to be a bit more precise, one of the things we see, for example, in water quality monitoring...we know we're having an impact with some of the programs we're doing, but all the time we're moving along, activity is taking place. We're always trying to measure against what

Environment committee  To the question, it's a lapse from last year and available in this year, but maybe I'll....

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  Well, for example, we measure water quality across the country, and we measure air quality, the emissions in a variety of constructs, looking for what particles might be in the atmosphere. We also monitor the numbers of species, numbers of caribou, whatever it might be. We monit

Environment committee  We produced an environmental indicators publication, which I'd be happy to go back to. I think we're seeing improvements, if I could put it, overall. You need to go into particular details. Some things improve. Some things don't. We could provide the committee with a summary of s

Environment committee  Yes, I can speak to that. As you've noted, we have a fairly significant project with the Government of Alberta to enhance monitoring in the oil sands area, which includes monitoring of water, air, land, and biodiversity. That's been agreed to relatively recently, and we are now

Environment committee  In terms of the amount of money, the industry has committed to fund this additional monitoring activity up to $50 million per year, and that would be between us and Alberta.

Environment committee  What information did you ask for?

Environment committee  Yes, of course, we'll provide you with that information. I think we've already provided some details on that, but we'll provide more.

Environment committee  Yes, soon—I mean, we can get into trouble when we put specific deadlines out and they're not met.

Environment committee  Suffice it to say, we're trying to make sure that this analysis is out there in time to prepare us for decisions that will have to be taken. I would say.... I'm not going to put a date on it. But soon. We're into the final stages of that analysis.