Thank you. I'll try to keep it to two questions.
In my past lives, I've worked with national parks, Manitoba Parks, and BC Parks as a public servant under many different governments. I want to talk for a minute about the $1.3 billion; I was happy to work at getting signatures from other MPs in support of it.
We're coming up on an election, and I'm interested to know.... Out of that $1.3 billion, do you have any idea of how much has already been spent? Also, how much of it is “election-proof”? If it's not, I really encourage you to be thinking about ways over the next few months to park that money in such a way that it will survive an election regardless, in order to benefit conservation.
I don't know if you can answer that. How much of the $1.3 billion is gone? How much of it is committed in such a way that, regardless of an election outcome, it will still be there for conservation?