Environment committee  Our understanding, sir, is that's exactly right. Finance Canada with Revenue Canada will come back in 2011 with calculations.

Environment committee  I think just intuitively, if you're giving Canadians incentive to try to increase their use of public transport, they need the choice. They need to have public transit systems in place that they can access. We haven't looked at that, but I think your observations are probably cor

Environment committee  That's correct. The intention is to do a reduction on annual passes by, I think, 15%.

Environment committee  We didn't look at what the government might do in terms of increasing the awareness of this as an option for Canadians.

Environment committee  We did not look at alternatives that were in play in different departments in looking at policy alternatives. That would be an area of policy that we wouldn't generally look at anyway. So when the policy decision was made, we would look at the management in order to implement--wh

Environment committee  For 2007, yes, sir, it was 220,000.

Environment committee  That's right.

Environment committee  Yes, that's it. We examined two programs, the tax credit and the Trust Fund. We looked at those two programs in terms of climate change, and in terms of the two existing targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. We did not examine the impact of each sector, or the le

Environment committee  The work is being done right now. It is hard for me to say, because there are no conclusions yet. The report in May will be the first one. It is the beginning of the application of the Kyoto protocol. It is hard to say are you on target or not. For me, right now, it is hard to

Environment committee  As Mr. Maxwell said, there is a $370 million government program to manage and reduce risks on farms. The government does not know the results of the various programs. It is a monitoring problem, and it is difficult to show specific, concrete results regarding what is happening on

Environment committee  The indicators used regarding the agricultural and agri-food environment do include a target. It is a 21% reduction in agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. In the national inventory, there is a breakdown of emissions by sector, such as industry, housing, transportation and agri

Environment committee  I don't want to give you the wrong answer to this, so I'll double-check. My guess is that it probably follows the pattern of the other trust funds and it's with Finance as the lead department, but I'd like to double-check on that, if I may.

Environment committee  In our report, on what we did find, the department actually provided us with an internal analysis from Finance Canada. What they said was that any program over $800 a tonne would not be an effective use of taxpayers' money in order to get at a target. I don't know whether you can

Environment committee  I'll ask my colleague, Mr. Maxwell.

Environment committee  We can get that information. I don't have it with me right now, but I promise to get back to you whether we do. We would know our costs for administering the petitions process, but I don't think we would have an idea of what the costs would be for each of the departments and th