Environment committee  Roughly, more or less.

Environment committee  There were expenditures, of course, on implementation, and on renting facilities. Amounts were given to non-profit groups, to environment NGOs, for their participation. We also gave a grant to the United Nations Secretariat, which was responsible for the conference. It was not ou

Environment committee  I am certain that it cost a little less than $40 million, but it was approximately that amount.

Environment committee  I am not an expert in conferences, but I would say that there are conferences that cost a lot more than that.

Environment committee  At the Department of the Environment, I would say that the expenditures totalled approximately $40 million, more or less; I do not know the exact amount. There were some expenditures by other departments, for security measures, for example, but these were not expenses that we had

Environment committee  Yes. A little more than that.

Environment committee  In 2004-2005, towards the end of the year, a number of concerns were raised about one of these foundations. The Department of Natural Resources and we took it very seriously and carried out an evaluation. The group representing the foundation came and had to give us an explanatio

Environment committee  Not to my knowledge. The amounts we are citing here represent our share, and for most of them, there was another share paid by Natural Resources Canada. Hence the figure could be doubled, but I'm not sure that it was $6 billion?

Environment committee  I'll see if I can address the question. In the opening remarks, Ms. Ruta mentioned that some of our programs are sunsetted and therefore our funding fluctuates. This is one of those programs where the decision was that there was funding until 2006-07 and subsequent decisions wer

Environment committee  Approximately 15 or 16 months ago, a decision was taken to do a full review of all climate change programs. This review was carried out by the Treasury Board Secretariat with considerable input from the department. There was a rather systematic process: 95 initiatives were review

Environment committee  For our department?

Environment committee  Once again, I need to check. Can you give me a few minutes?

Environment committee  I'm not sure I understood your question properly.

Environment committee  Can we return to this question later? The list is rather long and it will take me a few minutes to find it.

Environment committee  Yes. I would like to point out that these credits were included in the main estimates while awaiting a presentation to the Treasury Board explaining how the agency was going to operate and what its mandate would be. These credits were therefore included, but they were frozen in