Environment committee  A number are currently underway.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  Everything depends on the scope of the evaluation.

Environment committee  I'm just trying to.... I have an excerpt here of page 143.

Environment committee  Is it in the main estimates or in the supplementary estimates?

Environment committee  Oh, yes, I have page 143 here. Every minister—it's a statutory amount that we get from Treasury Board Secretariat—has a budget for their office and their staff. This is, essentially, the budget our minister has, the Minister of the Environment. It would be the same if you go to—

Environment committee  Yes, that's right—and their staff.

Environment committee  I simply want to add that, once the reports are completed, they are available on our Web site.

Environment committee  It's just an increase over last year, because in effect, what we have for this year is about $37 million in total, and that includes....

Environment committee  That's accumulated. That's right. Basically, it affects our core activities. We're like other departments; we're not the only ones. We would have $9 million from the expenditure review exercise a few years back, the first round, and in the second round, as our minister has said,

Environment committee  About $8 million. We used the $13 million in carry-forward to reallocate as well. We've had some other areas where we've put more money into programs, but we funded it through some of these—

Environment committee  The vast majority, really, weren't identified at the time from any specific program, so we've been trying to gather efficiencies as we can.

Environment committee  Well, we've had a very deliberate exercise of going through all of our programs and activities to make sure we understand where the spending is. We've taken some broad-based initiatives, as I mentioned, on travel and conferences, where we have some discretionary spending, to see

Environment committee  Thanks very much, Mr. Chair. We can only spend money that Parliament provides to us. As you know, we get money in dribs and drabs through the year. We have the main estimates, and then we have supplementary estimates. So just about every single organization will carry forward an

Environment committee  Within the main estimates and our total funding, we are about $1 billion; however, with some year-end transactions, it may be more. Also, Environment Canada has received accountability now for the Toronto waterfront revitalization initiative, so when you see the estimates next r