Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Good afternoon, deputy ministers and directors.
Thank you for being here and for waiting. We know your time is valuable and you have a lot of work to do. So thank you for so many of you being with us.
I would like to start with a special request.
The budget was tabled this week. It was very interesting. However, I have a lot of questions and concerns about the plan for $80 billion over ten years in response to the Inflation Reduction Act and how that will be broken down.
There are a lot of details in chapter 3 of the budget, but I would like to know whether you can provide your estimates by sector, as precisely as possible, and by province.
For example, what provinces will be getting the money for carbon capture? How will the small modular reactors and the advance tax credits for rebuilding power stations be allocated?
Are you able to give us the estimates for those tax credits and tell us how that $80 billion will be spent?