Sure. We've been delivering the program since 1998, and we have a certain number of audits that we've put into place. This program, along with the other programs that the deputy minister mentioned earlier, was reviewed by the Government of Canada in the previous government's climate change review that was started last summer. The department submitted information about how the program was operating with respect to its objectives, its partnerships, co-benefits, and so forth. That was part of a process that was run by the central agencies.
So we submitted to that evaluation of effectiveness. We didn't run that evaluation of effectiveness, and I can't really speak to it. You would have to direct your questions to the members of the central agencies--I apologize for that--who ran that review. What we can say is that we ran the program and we knew how many audits we delivered--I believe it's 230,000 since 1998--which represents, as the deputy pointed out, a portion of the money that was spent on the program. The other portions of the dollars were spent on the incentive and the technical and administration requirements.
The government may indeed feel that there are more effective instruments to use. I can speak to having had a certain delivery of it and an assessment of it, but I can't really take you any further.