Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Minister, staff, welcome.
I have a couple of areas that I want to push down on a little. One is more of a high level at the policy level, and the other is more at a targeted area in my riding, which affects the forestry industry.
The first one is with respect to energy policy and an allocation with energy policy development analysis. Electricity and petroleum resources are somewhere in the area of around $20 million in 2006-07, and then that decreases over the next couple of years. With that trend in spending going down, do we expect that the policy development is going to be in such a state that we are going to have it well developed enough, from an energy policy standpoint, in the next year or so to make a good contribution to the integration of our energy policy with our environment policy? That's my first question.