Environment committee  In the past, it hasn't been done by Environment Canada. I'm not sure, some of my colleagues may know whether it was done more broadly through other structures. For Environment Canada, we have one portion. We don't have it for the entire climate change initiative. Prospectively, w

Environment committee  There could be technical adjustments, as for closing entries. As you know, when you close your books, you don't have all the information at hand on March 31 when you don't use a cash basis approach for recording your accounts. In terms of applying to the prior year, if in substan

Environment committee  Yes, that is correct. When he spoke, the minister included in that the interim strategy of $367 million. The clean transportation, as I was just mentioning, the $1.45 billion—

Environment committee  —was prior to budget 2007, so that money would have gone out, as we understand it. This is not under Environment Canada, as we understand it. Then investing in cleaner energy in budget 2007 is still pending parliamentary approval; that's for the ecoTrust, in the order of $1.5 bil

Environment committee  That's right.

Environment committee  I think there's a distinction between whether or not the cash is gone or what you account for in the public accounts as an expenditure. Pending parliamentary approval, our understanding is that this will be charged to the year-end payments. If it's not approved, then it won't be

Environment committee  This would be subject to parliamentary approval. It's not Environment Canada that's actually putting out the cheques, so--

Environment committee  In terms of the opening comments, the amounts that were planned spending for 2006-07 related to the initiatives that were indicated--a total, I guess, under the clean energy and clean transportation areas--up to $1.45 billion. The reason it has flowed or it has not flowed is thi

Environment committee  The $9 billion comes as a result of initiatives announced prior to Budget 2007 and also Budget 2007 initiatives, and they extend for many years. The 2006-07 one deals with clean transportation, other environmental measures in the order of about $2.9 million, as well as investing

Environment committee  No, I did not, Ms. Cléroux did.

Environment committee  I'm Basia Ruta. I'm the assistant deputy minister of finance and corporate and the chief financial officer at Environment Canada.

Environment committee  The Main Estimates announce initiatives relating to climate change. The total amount is of some 850 million dollars. As the minister mentioned, for Environment Canada, the Main Estimates provide for about 67.3 million dollars for these initiatives for the 2007-2008 fiscal year.

Environment committee  Indeed.

Environment committee  More specifically, in 2005-2006, the expenditures relating to climate change initiatives amounted to approximately 512 million dollars.

Environment committee  We did not do an analysis for all of the previous years, but we did do one for the last three years. In 2005-2006, the amount was of 512 million dollars and it involved approximately four programs aimed at emissions, reductions for climate change, incentives for wind energy and p