Yes, I think it's a very reasonable question, and in fact it's one we address every day. In any environment you have to ask yourself about your priorities and whether you're doing the best you can as an organization to deliver on the mandate you've been provided with the resources you have. Obviously, as the resources get smaller you have to do an even better job of trying to find ways to make sure you're delivering on your core mandate in the most efficient way possible.
Frankly, Environment Canada has gone through that process over the last couple of years. There was budget 2012, certainly, but there were other forces that caused us to have a look at the resources we had available, what we were doing, and how we could best focus on the activities that were most productive in ensuring our mandate of a clean, safe, sustainable environment for Canadians.
We talked earlier about some of the administrative efficiencies we've seen. I would argue that the consolidation of the emergency centre is a good example of these. We've seen others. The minister referenced early some things we're looking at on the enforcement and other sides whereby we can, through combining either with Parks Canada or with other partners, find ways to do frankly a better job than we were doing, and in some cases with fewer resources.
Resource reduction forces you in some cases to make some hard choices, but that's what running this department is about, and these are the kinds of choices we have to make with the support of the government, when policy issues are at play.
It's an important question.