Environment committee  Absolutely, you can ask the question and we can provide you with further details on that. I'll ask Mr. Mokhtar to provide further details, but a lot of our grants and contributions are not a large amount; a lot of them are a small amount, going to a wide variety of stakeholders.

Environment committee  I'm looking at page 8-5 of the estimates, and here we have $803 million versus prior years of $835 million, so I'm not quite sure where the member came from with the $92 million.

Environment committee  I'll ask Mr. Craig Ferguson to provide you with the contextual information.

Environment committee  If it would be all right, perhaps I'll just call on Mr. Alex Manson to provide that.

Environment committee  Mr. Chair, I think my colleague, Mr. Mokhtar, wants to provide one comment.

Environment committee  Thank you.

Environment committee  Thank you for this. As I was trying to mention before, if you'd actually looked at the public accounts, you'd have seen that we've spent pretty much a billion dollars a year. Our main estimates focused primarily on a lot of the ongoing expenditures over time, but we do have a lo

Environment committee  Thank you very much for this question. It's somewhat technical, but as you know, the previous government was in a position to assess all climate change programs. This review enabled us to determine to what extent the programs would go forward. The $34.5 million and the amounts t

Environment committee  For 2006-2007?

Environment committee  Thank you very much for your question. On a point of information, I can answer questions concerning the activities and operations of our department, but not questions about the portfolio. I was under the impression that the questions would really pertain to our department. I ca

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to point out that if you ever need additional information here at the table, we would be happy to provide it. As to your question concerning page 45 and the agency, concerning whether we have already spent the money in connection with the cr

Environment committee  Yes. The budget is approximately $5,183,000.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll reiterate what I mentioned before. On its own, climate change is not something that you can deal with. It's an impact, if you like, based on a lot of other activities that we do. So in terms of how we organized our program activity architecture last ye

Environment committee  Again I would say it's for the government to establish priorities, and as a public servant I'm here to follow them.