Finance committee  I'm not sure what you mean by cuts?

Finance committee  I'm not sure how to answer that, because we haven't had any funding for the last seven years. We have lived on our investments, and they are now used up. We have enough to take us to the end of our mandate.

Finance committee  Absolutely.

Finance committee  We received $60 million in 2000, when the foundation was established, and $50 million in 2003-04, so it was a total of $110 million, which, as I mentioned, would stretch to $127 million through interest. We've in fact invested $117 million to date in research.

Finance committee  Yes, but I have to say that in the funding of foundations, this was the normal way of doing it. The funding came in chunks, and the foundations were able to invest and use that. Our chunk stopped. The Canada Foundation for Innovation continued, and Sustainable Development Technol

Finance committee  —and we're just over $100 million.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Carrier. We received our funding from the government in increments. In 2000, we received $60 million. In 2003, we received another $50 million. We invested that money in accordance with the rules stipulating that the investments be very safe. We did not lose any m

Finance committee  Absolutely, yes.

Finance committee  That's right. No other agency funds the partnerships we support, the intersectoral partnerships. NSERC funds basic research. It funds some strategic initiatives. It doesn't fund this kind of partnership. In fact, its strategic priorities specifically exclude climate areas.

Finance committee  Yes, I believe it is. We're currently in the process of submitting a brief to the Minister of the Environment, at his request, detailing the situation. But the reality is that our last funding came in 2003 and we have lived off the principal and interest. We've stretched $110 mil

Finance committee  I have to say that the scientific community has written.... We've presented to this committee before. We will be releasing next month a book of some of the achievements of the work we have supported, including achievements on air quality and Arctic conditions that have come out o

Finance committee  I don't think it's for me to respond to that one. But I agree that it's a unique facility. It's part of a small number of circumpolar facilities. We're partnered with countries around the globe, and when this one disappears it will be a huge gap for the rest of the world.

Finance committee  Absolutely. We fund the research there.

Finance committee  All of it.

Finance committee  Thank you for asking the question. The easy answer is that I can't tell you what's happening. It's like a pack of cards; there are 11 bodies funding that agency. Canada Foundation for Innovation has helped support the facility. NSERC is helping to run the facility. We are suppo