Fisheries committee  I'll take a shot at that, Mr. Chairman. In budgets 2011, 2012, and 2013, as was the case with every federal department, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans was obliged to participate in this broader deficit reduction goal, and we've done that. In 2011-12, under the auspices o

Fisheries committee  I was going to get there. I have one more round of reductions to talk about. Fisheries and Oceans and the Canada Revenue Agency were also asked to come back and do a targeted review—this was announced in last year's budget—and that will ramp up to $33 million. So to answer you

Fisheries committee  I'll ask David to help me out a little bit on ELA. ELA, the Experimental Lakes Area, was actually a very good example of the types of programs you have to look at when circumstances call for a reduction in expenditures. I don't think the government or the department ever said the

Fisheries committee  I think I am.

Fisheries committee  Maybe I can start that off, and, Kevin, you can fill in some details as we go, because that's an interesting question. We actually started to look at this program back in 2002-03, when we found, as a department, we were doing 12,000 to 12,500 environmental assessments a year. O

Fisheries committee  I have read statements recently that have made an effort to segment fisheries, to say that this type of fishery will be protected and that type of fishery won't. I have to say that sometimes I find it difficult to follow the argument. The act for the first time actually has pre

Fisheries committee  We put out a policy statement a month to two months ago—I'm sorry I don't have the exact date in front of me—where we actually went further and began to clarify and define more sharply what that would mean. In the policy statement, I believe on page 8, we've said that any fishery

Fisheries committee  So for every dollar we put in, we're getting a dollar back; in British Columbia for every dollar we put in, we're getting $1.40 back. We have a total of 98 projects on the go right now, and I think it is actually a good example of—

Fisheries committee  I have a bit of a breakdown, if you find that interesting. In terms of accepted projects, we had 28 in British Columbia, 24 in the DFO central and arctic region, 19 in Quebec, 21 in the gulf, 6 in the Maritimes, and one in Newfoundland.

Fisheries committee  Yes, it would have been—

Fisheries committee  The central Arctic would be the entire—

Fisheries committee  We've had a very wide variety. Kevin, do you want to provide some examples for us?

Fisheries committee  It's an element; it's one of the consequences of the new legislation. We wouldn't have had the explicit authority to do this in the previous legislation, but now we do. It's turned out to be a little bit of a whirlwind of activity. It's a two-year pilot project, as you know. We

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  The final report of the commission is obviously rich in details, many recommendations, and the department is continuing, as we make operational policy or program decisions, to bring as much of the Cohen analysis into our day-to-day operations as we can. We haven't gotten into a