Environment committee  We're not big players under the economic action plan, but over two years—2009-2010 and 2010-2011—if these supplementary estimates get approved, there will be about $36 million. That would deal with the Canadian environmental sustainability indicators program. There'd be about $6.2 million coming to Environment Canada, with about $3 million more going to two other departments.

Environment committee  In terms of our overall funding, that would place us at about $1.1 billion, which is similar to the total supply that we received last year. This is with supplementary estimates (B). Again, supplementary estimates (C) have not come by. There may be some other technical adjustments, but we seem to be relatively on the same level.

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Indeed it does flow from the economic action plan as one of the activities. This $230,000 item is really a net amount. The actual amount that we're putting forward in an accelerated manner amounts to about $2.2 million. The economic action plan did accelerate work in this whole area of contaminated sites, but we had already been receiving funding to do work on contaminated sites for a few years previously.

Environment committee  Every year, any federal departments that have had lands or units contaminated can access certain funding that has been put aside. Several years ago, there was about $3.5 billion, I think, set aside for the cleanup of contaminated sites. There's a process whereby you put an estimate in the plan, and it goes through criteria and scrutiny.

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will provide a short perspective and ask my colleagues to provide more information. Essentially it really is to, under the clean air agenda, international actions to implement the Canada clean energy dialogue. The initiative calls for both domestic and international actions to improve air quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Environment committee  That is correct. I am not 100% sure, but we are not responsible for it.

Environment committee  I think that a significant part of the funding can be found in the budgets of the Department of Natural Resources and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. So it is not part of our budget.

Environment committee  Mr. Chair, I will ask Mr. Keenan to answer this question, please.

Environment committee  Just to understand a little bit of the funding mechanism, in the main estimates, you are correct, there is a reduction. However, in the supplementary estimates (A), which I know we're not discussing today, there is an amount of about $8 million that is presented for international actions in support of Canada's clean air agenda.

Environment committee  These are the main estimates, not the full budget for the current year. Last year, there was $130 million, and this year $103.8 million; that's true. That's not a reduction, but it's related to the activities—

Environment committee  I'll ask my colleague Cécile Cléroux to answer that question.

Environment committee  For last year there was about $5.6 million on ecoACTION that was spent in advertising, as well as $98,000 in terms of the campaign to unfold in 2008-09 vis-à-vis the vehicle scrappage, and for the Biosphere $190,000, for a total of $5.8 million. You're quite correct that in the report on plans and priorities there was an amount earmarked of $8.8 million, but we did not spend that full amount.

Environment committee  Well, ecoACTION is a number of initiatives that are sponsored for the promotion of environmental programs in support with communities at the local level.

Environment committee  We could certainly provide it. And as I say, we didn't spend $8.8 million, but about $5.9 million.

Environment committee  Mr. Chair, we do have some information available.