Public Accounts committee  Natasha Rascanin, Infrastructure Canada.

Environment committee  Thank you very much. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. I would like to introduce my two colleagues. Bogdan Makuc is the director of program operations within the program operations branch, and Mohamed Nouhi is the principal adviser in

Environment committee  All right. The green infrastructure fund is a national merit-based system, and proponents for projects apply with their own priorities. As I mentioned in my opening remarks, it is largely provinces, territories, and municipalities that would put forward priorities. The funding wa

Environment committee  I've given you the categories for the green infrastructure fund particularly, but within the larger Building Canada fund program, there are 17 eligibility criteria tranches. A number of them are specifically green or eco-focused. As I mentioned, the proponents design their progra

Environment committee  We have not consistently been hearing that there's a gap. As you probably know, our minister held a consultation process last year with a variety of stakeholders, to seek feedback and considerations going forward. I'm not aware that we have heard of a major gap in specific catego

Environment committee  No.

Environment committee  It's hard for me to tell you exactly, because we would need to look at the specifics. In general, we certainly don't try to preclude them, but we do have to review each project on its specifics and make sure that it fits the terms and conditions we have. That is our primary role:

Environment committee  I don't think there's a problem with starting those kinds of conversations. I would emphasize as well that all the conversations definitely need to happen with municipal, provincial, and territorial partners, because all of this prioritization happens at that level.

Environment committee  That is all of the funding, total.

Environment committee  No decision has been made yet, so I cannot answer that.

Environment committee  It is not up to me to determine that, but—

Environment committee  I would not say that all of the funds have been distributed—

Environment committee  The program was announced in 2011.

Environment committee  I'm sorry. It was in 2009, not 2011.

Environment committee  It was a total of $1 billion.