Madam Chair, this is a well-visited question, and I will offer my hon. colleague the stock response.
When the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy was created a full quarter century ago, there were no other similar public policy bodies which examined the relationship between the economy and the environment. Today there are any number of public policy bodies across academia and private foundations and any number of boards and chambers which now provide that information.
The $5 million that had been spent on the national round table enables us to avoid making cuts in more significant parts of my department.