One of the first things scientists will argue about is how you get defined as a scientist. The way I think of this is if you think of the Environment Canada budget as a box, about half of the box is devoted to science. It's not just people with graduate degrees but also the people who support them as well. So about half of the department's budget is science.
I guess I would say that, just in terms of telling members a little bit about results, we are the seventh-largest producer of peer-reviewed environmental science in the world. We are the largest outside of the U.S.
One of the things Environment Canada can do, and I'm very proud of the department because of this, is that with a lot of scientific credibility it can provide very good advice, not just to ministers and deputy ministers but in environmental assessments, international science work like climate change work, etc.
About half of what we do is basically science.