I think that the success we had in last year's budget—again, working with a team of 400 different players—where five of our six recommendations to the minister were in fact announced in the budget, accounting for roughly half of the environment expenditures last year, does not speak so much to the efficacy of the agency as it does the weight of authority that is accorded a grouping of the kind that we brought together to make the recommendations in the first place.
Nos efforts ont porté fruit puisque—après avoir travaillé avec une équipe de 400 intervenants différents—le budget de l'an dernier a retenu cinq des six recommandations que nous avions présentées au ministre et que ces recommandations sont à l'origine d'environ la moitié des dépenses consacrées l'an dernier à l'environnement.
