--including from the environment minister and deputy, who argued back that in fact because all of the cuts were supposed to be from pre-green-plan A-base funds.... There was one department that was able to make the argument that their ongoing operations were so intertwined with the green plan funds--which had been integrated into the department's activities over the previous four or five years--that they couldn't separate them out. The only department where that argument carried was Environment Canada, and it was--
On April 28th, 2008. See this statement in context.