Here is an example of what I provided to the committee.
We received significant funding in budget 2003. We finally expended all the funds under that budget by 2010-11. We delivered over 100,000 square kilometres. I can get you the numbers. My point is we got a fair amount of funding, but it took time to negotiate the necessary agreements from provincial governments to get them to agree to transfer the surface and subsurface to Canada to manage as national parks. It took significant time in communities to gain the necessary level of support and to negotiate impact and benefit agreements. To a certain extent it was the time it took to build trust. Part of our history is a history of expropriation in Atlantic Canada and elsewhere. In some communities we still encounter a fear that's what we're going to do. Sometimes the federal government is not necessarily welcomed when it arrives in a community. A whole range of other issues casts some distrust. We are not going to force the creation of a new national park or an NMCA on a community.
We invest the time and the funding to achieve those relationships. It's difficult, and sometimes there may not necessarily be the level of support to achieve it, but we work through it. I think we've demonstrated a tremendous record of success through the last couple of decades, but it is taking time.