As the minister indicated in his remarks, this year a number of programs sunsetted or ended at the end of 2015-16. They were in a basket called “clean air agenda” or something to that effect, and it was energy efficiency, clean technology. Those programs were set up over a five-year period, and they were scheduled to expire at the end of last month.
Every time a government has that kind of a situation, they have to make a decision about whether we continue those, we increase them, or we decrease them. What we saw in budget 2016 in the area of energy efficiency, which you have raised, was there has been a commitment to spend $129 million over five years in the area of energy efficiency. That's in a sense a renewal or a continuation of those energy efficiency programs.
In the area of clean technology there was some additional money in this budget. There was some green infrastructure money for charging stations for electric vehicles, for example. There were some things there. But as the minister indicated, there was also another $1 billion set aside without a specific program beside it to look at clean technology investments in the natural resource area as well as other sectors going forward.
Some of what's going to continue over the next five-year period is going to be decided based on consultations that we will be having over the course of the coming months and conceivably could be set out in, say, the next budget.
There were programs that were in place. Some of the funding has gone forward. Some is going to be subjected to further consultation to see how best to spend that money. Another example of things that were continued and renewed was money spent on adaptation. There were programs in place for that, and that's continued for our international climate change negotiations.
I haven't given you an exact comparison—you may have noticed—between what's going to be spent over the next five years versus what was spent in 2013-14. I can endeavour to try to get you that answer, but unless Kami has it right at her disposal, which she might because she's the CFO—