This goes, to a certain extent, to some of the discussions you've already had. In terms of the ongoing research on the leases and remediating the activity, in my opinion, that is the responsibility of the companies. They're the ones who should be doing it, and they should be informing government of the work that's going on for collaborative activity.
I would suggest that the focus of federal government funding should be on what I call distill impacts, or impacts in the environment off the leases: what are the atmospheric implications, what are the issues associated with naturally occurring oil sands, and what are the appropriate long-term baseline studies that should be done in that area? So I would focus federal government funding in that area.
Perhaps I should declare one very, very old conflict of interest. Between 1980 and 1981, before I joined the University of Waterloo, I worked for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.