I would like to mention a few things. First of all, the investment we made in the mountain pine beetle in Alberta is to protect the forests in eastern Canada. It's to stop the eastward spread of that particular forest pest.
I would also like to make a correction to the honourable member's comments. We invested $11.6 million in the spruce budworm. We reprofiled unspent monies, which was announced in the economic update in December 2020. That $11.6 million went specifically to the spruce budworm spraying in the province of Quebec.
With regard to the comments on the early intervention strategy in Atlantic Canada, we recognized, among the federal expert researchers, that trying to intervene early on in the spread of the spruce budworm from the Quebec region into Atlantic Canada was the best way to identify those hot spots and control the pests from damaging the spruce and fir trees in most of Atlantic Canada. It is cost shared. The participation is 60:40 for federal and provincial investment.