Transport committee  Right.

Transport committee  It went out the door before March 31, 2006.

Transport committee  Correct.

Transport committee  The green fund is not in our main estimates.

Transport committee  No, it was either funded through Environment Canada or through Natural Resources Canada. I can't remember, but it went through another department.

Transport committee  It has been moved over to Treasury Board.

Transport committee  That's why you won't find it here either.

Transport committee  Well, there are strings in the sense that we've already talked about certain uses for the gas tax, basically in the green category.

Transport committee  Actually, last year Infrastructure Canada spent $1.5 billion. The main reason is that the first year of the gas tax, which was roughly around $600 million, was not included in the main estimates because it was a statutory item.

Transport committee  It's a statutory item, so although it showed up in our expenditure and the moneys were transferred to the provinces, it didn't go through the main estimates process. Once you take that into account, the real increase we're talking about, as the minister indicated in his opening speech, is from $1.5 billion to $1.8 billion, which is explained by the additional projects that have come on board since the time the main estimates were prepared, under such things as the CCIF.