As a department, we've been participating in the decision-making process. There is a decision-making process in government that involves cabinet and Treasury Board approval before announcements can finally be made. As I say, for that set of programs that were subject to the climate change review initiated by the previous government, and then presented to the current government, I think we're ending the end stage of that process. I'm hopeful that we'll see some decisions emerge very shortly. I really can't get into cabinet committee schedules and stuff like that.
When those decisions come out for most programs they will be to provide another year of funding. For some of the technology ones it will be another two years of funding. The logic has been to give the new government time. Really I think it relates to what you're saying to give the new government time to figure out the approach it wants to take without unduly disrupting the industry. For those programs that were subject to the...and that includes the ethanol program, but it also includes the REDI program, all I can say is I think we're very close to getting some decisions that will unblock the situation and respond to some of the legitimate concerns that have been raised by my colleagues.
In the case of the wind program, it is much larger program. The expansion was something in the order of $900 million over 15 years. That's a bigger decision the government will make. Certainly a decision will be made, I would think, one way or the other by the fall. I know the minister was here last week and was reading the transcripts, and he has clearly indicated his support for wind and how he sees wind as part of the government's broader energy strategy.
I'm not in a position really to predict timing on this, but I can indicate that I think some of the very legitimate concerns that Robert and his colleagues have raised regarding the implications of an extended delay are resonating and are being heard. I'm not just really in a position today to talk about timing vis-à-vis the wind program and whether this would happen early or it might have to be delayed until September. I just can't predict that.