Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
First of all, unfortunately Mr. Bélanger has left. He didn't really give me an opportunity to respond to his question. I would like to advise the committee that we do not have the information to give him the answer to his question. I think it would be speculation on our part.
But I would point out that within the chapter we strongly recommend that the fee should be reviewed on a regular basis, and I think that would start the process whereby they would be naturally going through some update or some change that would put them through the User Fees Act. If that were the case, then I think he would be more satisfied that those fees were being looked at on a regular basis.
I also would like, at this time, to respond to Mr. Lussier's question concerning the larger fees that we did not look at.
There are two categories of fees. We looked at some of the fees charged by certain departments. For instance, the fees charges by Citizenship and Immigration Canada total approximately $250 million. The fees charged by Passport Canada for consular services account for one third of the total fees collected, or for $230 million. Industry Canada collects about $300 million in fees.
The remaining fees are collected by departments and agencies that we have not yet audited, such as the CRTC, $175 million in fees, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, $50 million, the Canadian Grain Commission, $40 million, and the National Energy Board, $35 million. There are some 220 different fees in all.