Environment committee  The answer is yes. We do cost analysis on all programming. The other question you asked was whether we know the full cost of every charging station up to the last one, and the answer to that would be no, but yes, the policy analysis that supports budgetary decisions is based on

Environment committee  John, is there a costing estimate we can provide to the committee?

Environment committee  The critical minerals strategy is led out of the Department of Natural Resources, but Environment Canada participates and has an important role in the minister's portfolio, especially given the fact that the Impact Assessment Agency forms a critical part of the social licence, wh

Environment committee  I'm looking at John, in case he has already done this. I believe the short answer is that we have not calculated out to the end point. There are a couple of things that I would say. I think you raised the point earlier around the electrification challenges. You're right that the

Environment committee  On the charging stations, what the government announced was—

Environment committee  I would think that's an unknowable. That would be a very challenging number to know, given how technology is changing right now. We did this in the nineties, when we built the information highway—

Environment committee  I don't want to comment on the RBC estimate. Estimates on that need to be carefully considered. I'm sure we could come up with an estimate. There's an uptake and there's an amount of infrastructure you can build on an annual basis. The funding is sufficient at this point. To my

Environment committee  I'll start, and then John Moffet can take a bit of it. I would just note that we would disagree with the characterization of the clean fuel standard as a fossil fuel subsidy, recognizing that it is a term that requires some agility to define. We would note as well that the cl

Environment committee  Do you want to answer, John, just on the specifics on threshold—

Environment committee  I would absolutely agree with your statement around the importance of Arctic research. It is absolutely critical, and our High Arctic research centre plays a really important role, both on the planetary science on climate change, and then obviously for Canada as well. The expen

Environment committee  I'm glad to take the question. The answer is that we have not.

Environment committee  MUSH programming has been and is being delivered.

Environment committee  Doug Nevison is on the line, and he's the program manager for that program. Doug, do you have information specifically around that—

Environment committee  We can provide that information in writing.

Environment committee  Could you repeat the question one more time? I apologize.