Thank you very much. I welcome your questions.
I think you've basically raised four areas.
Number one, with respect to the operating budgets of the department, they have increased. That's something I watch carefully and I am equally concerned about it. In fact they've risen 28.7%. I can tell you where these increases are. There is $111 million that has gone specifically to address our nuclear waste liability. This is something that has been ignored for decades. It has not been dealt with and was long overdue. We had no option but to address this issue. There was an additional $57.9 million for developing the initiatives and the management for our clean air agenda. That was done. There was also an additional $22.4 million for the low-level radioactive waste cleanup in the Port Hope area.
And you're right, there were some offsets. We eliminated some programs and we brought in programs that didn't exist before. So there are some changes. But there are those increases, and that's a result of the....
If you look at the global budget of NRCan, you'll see it has actually increased by almost half a billion dollars. That raised concerns for me; I like to go in the other direction. But what in fact is happening is that particularly Newfoundland and Labrador receive 100% of the royalties from the offshore. That flows through my department, the federal government, and then they flow back. So even though it looks like our department has received another budget of half a billion dollars, it flows right through to the province. And that's--