Natural Resources committee  Give me a second.

Natural Resources committee  It's a good question. The reduction is in line with the program's original spending profile, within the first 10 years of the contribution agreement. The ecoENERGY for renewable power program was launched in 2007 to encourage more renewable power projects. Almost $1.4 billion has been committed under the program to support 104 projects.

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Chair, it's a hypothetical question. I think the government and the minister are really engaged with his counterpart with the U.S. He's been there, even last week. And at this point, I'm not going to elaborate more.

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Chair, the Government of Canada made the commitment to only approve projects that are in the public interest. The northern gateway project was determined not to be in the public interest because it would have brought crude oil tankers through the Douglas Channel.

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Chair, we're going to take the question and come back with a response.

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Chair, it's the same type of question. We're going to have to come back on capital.

Natural Resources committee  Sorry.

Natural Resources committee  I don't have a specific breakdown in percentage terms, but I can tell you that the full amount has to go to the forestry sector. The objective of the program is really to offset the fact that we're going to have early users of wood, and we want to make sure that it will be an incentive for people to use wood in building.

Natural Resources committee  I will say that this year, in the budget, the department put a lot of money into the energy sector to help it to go cleaner, to develop and support the industry—

Natural Resources committee  Yes, for sure. We are very concerned about the impact of carbon pricing.

Natural Resources committee  It's why we're doing a study with the finance department, and it's why we are also conducting a consultation with the industry. It's something that we're doing right now.

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Chair, we can go directly to the questions. We are pleased to answer them.

Natural Resources committee  Maybe I can answer why it's just a flow through. Really, we are working with the Atlantic offshore boards, and it's the transfer that we're doing to the provinces year after year to recognize another royalty...that we have to go to the board. The variation in the numbers is mainly due to the resource price, the production levels, and the operational costs.