Environment committee  Again, that is not something that we have done. However, you are referring to something that relates more closely to our well-being than to economic costs. There are models that allow for that type of calculation. There are, no doubt, people who would feel that a clean environmen

Environment committee  Does that include analysis of Bill C-30 as amended?

Finance committee  No date has been set, but normally, it's towards the very end of the fiscal year.

Finance committee  It is in March, yes.

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  Let me answer the first question, why would you need supplementary estimates at this point in the fiscal year. The answer is, a number of departments still have planned spending but are not ready to implement it.

Finance committee  Not all of it, no. For example, most of the budgetary measures in the 2007 budget that would apply to the fiscal year 2007-08 would not have been in the main estimates.

Finance committee  They're largely captured in supplementary estimates (A), but adjustments still take place between now and the end of the fiscal year. You may have transfers, for example, one-time transfers for organizations that need to be effected. There could be informational changes to statut

Finance committee  That's a reduction.

Finance committee  That's there, again, for informational purposes. It reflects a revision to public debt charges between the main estimates and the budget. The main estimates were based on a projection for debt charges in the 2006 fall update. Between the 2006 fall update and the budget, we revise

Finance committee  That's part of it. There are also revisions to interest rates over that time period. This is the down revision to the projection in public debt charges for the year 2007-08, between the main estimates and the supplementary estimates.

Finance committee  These are a series of acts related to Bretton Woods that largely govern our relationships with the International Monetary Fund.

Finance committee  The easiest way to answer that is, we plan on the basis of a five-year framework for the fall update or the economic statement, as was presented this year in the fall, and in the budget we go forward on a two-year basis.

Finance committee  In the budget, yes.

Finance committee  In fact, in the fall update we provide a five-year forecast for both the economy and the fiscal position of the government. In the budget, decisions are made on a two-year basis, and the projections are provided over the same time period, two years.