Environment committee  All expenditure reductions, particularly ones that are not identified up front, put pressure on the department to manage, and that's what we're doing.

Environment committee  Those are certainly the objectives the government has set out, and they're very clear to us.

Environment committee  I'll take a crack at it. As the minister indicated earlier, governments take decisions about reducing expenditures in departments. There have been several rounds of expenditure reductions, which usually take two forms: sometimes the actual programs and things being cut are iden

Environment committee  I'm not aware of that, sorry. I'll look into it.

Environment committee  I'm afraid you would have to speak to the--

Environment committee  To be honest, I couldn't tell you how it compares to other departments. Basia, do you have a sense of it?

Environment committee  Sorry, Mr. Chair. Going by this, the advertising budget of the Department of National Defence in 2007-08 seems to be over $12 million. For Human Resources and Social Development Canada, it looks to be a little bit over $12 million as well. For Health Canada, it's $7 million. Thos

Environment committee  In 2006-07, it was $2,350,000. I don't have 2005-06, for some reason, but in 2004-05, it was $8.8 million.

Environment committee  I believe there's a sort of middle managers community that's been formed in the Government of Canada, and—

Environment committee  The Major Projects Management Office is going to be set up under the auspices of Natural Resources Canada. It's going to just play a coordinating role in terms of bird-dogging: making sure that the environmental assessment process is moving along, but as well, once an environment

Environment committee  I'm not exactly sure whether the coordinator—

Environment committee  Well, it's not really an organization; it's just that middle managers have been identified as an important part of the management team—a category. As I understand it, there's an annual conference, for example, that takes place. There's some training for middle managers that's org

Environment committee  Exactly.

Environment committee  No, it's not a change to the process. What has happened is that in the last budget a certain amount of money has been set aside, for one thing, to set up this major projects office, but also to provide additional moneys to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and to a ha

Environment committee  Our advertising budget for 2007-08 is proposed to be just over $8 million a year. That's for advertising not just Environment Canada, but really for the government's new ecoAction plan. The first component of that campaign was on the ecoEnergy retrofit grant, and that was carried