Environment committee  I think our minister was here a couple of weeks ago providing the next steps. As I understand, over the next little while, 2006-07, it's really a matter of looking and consulting in a number of areas with stakeholders to be able to come up with a much more rigid environmental age

Environment committee  As I mentioned in my opening statement--I'll ask Mr. Hani Mokhtar to provide further details. I'd say that we're broadly similar. There's a real particularity with the environment budget. Personally, as chief financial officer, I'm hoping we can stabilize in future years. Our o

Environment committee  Thank you very much for the question. I'd like to make a couple of points just to provide some context. We're a largely science-based organization. Something like 60% or 65% of our resources are based on that. In terms of our strategic outcomes, science deals with a lot of that.

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the opportunity to make a few opening remarks. I'll try to be very brief. I also wanted to say that I'm very happy to be here, as Environment Canada's chief financial officer, to respond to questions on the department's main estimates. That said, I can