Mr. Speaker, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency has provided the following response:
a) The cost of the work done by the Department of Justice on this litigation up to the end of December 2008 is about $690 300. Other departments do not track their time so it is not possible to estimate the cost incurred by other federal departments involved in the litigation. However, the vast majority of the cost incurred by the federal government is link to the work undertaken by the Department of Justice.
b) The current status of the court case and any documents filed by either party are publicly available from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
c) At this point in the process, none of the parties has commenced documentary disclosure.