Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'll reiterate what I mentioned before. On its own, climate change is not something that you can deal with. It's an impact, if you like, based on a lot of other activities that we do. So in terms of how we organized our program activity architecture last year, which is essentially how you are reading the estimates, the climate change portion per se was really quite discrete and focused on some particular objectives, informed by the work that we're doing from the other strategic outcomes, and also informed by the horizontal nature of the activities we undertake with the rest of government officials. As you know, climate change per se and the environment are not just Environment Canada's responsibility. There are other departments involved with us on this.
In terms of the priority of climate change, I can tell you that as a public servant I am here to deliver on the government's priorities. I'm not one to make the policy; I'm here to make sure I follow what policy is being set. So I can tell you quite confidently, this is what we've done in 2006-07.
In the supplementary estimates, you will see that we are asking for a bit more money, but as the government said this year, they are rolling out the environmental agenda. As the government priorities get set and are approved in the House in terms of funding, those moneys will then find their way in terms of the estimates. That could be either for this year, but also starting in 2007-08.