The balance is committed and is firmly set in the fiscal framework. Announcements will be coming over the next months on those additional measures to make up for the rest of those investments, but you can be sure that there will certainly be more to come on this.
How do we go about selecting priority expenditures in this area? Again, informed by all the discussion and consultation Minister Carr and his officials carried out with a number of departments and agencies—the innovation, science, and economic development department, Global Affairs Canada, Agriculture Canada, DFO, and other partners were very involved in those discussions—we're looking to come up with a program suite. It won't be a one-trick pony here. In line with what I was describing before in terms of technology push and market pull, we'll be looking at a number of initiatives to get to the end goal. We're certainly looking at a particular emphasis on those five natural resource sectors I described before, the target areas of energy, mines, forestry, agriculture, and fish.
One thing I would emphasize, and it surprised even us in our own discussions, is that there were a lot of commonalities among those sectors—more than we thought. The more we had those discussions, the more participants told us that water was a key priority for them. Extraction methods were important, and tailing ponds from mining. Energy was critical.
A lot of technologies apply to more than one sector, which is great, because you're having even more impact. Typically those industries and sectors tend to operate more in isolation. Now that we've opened up that dialogue, that discussion, they say, “You know what? I'd love to be able to use this apparatus for my activities.” I think there's quite a bit of scope in R and D and in the adoption of technologies where we could work across sectors.