The March 19, 2007 Federal Budget Plan had this paragraph on the National Capital (p. 73):
Preserving the National Capital
The National Capital Commission (NCC) safeguards and preserves the Capital’s most treasured cultural and natural heritage assets for future generations. As noted by the NCC Mandate Review Panel, funding in recent years has not been sufficient for the NCC to maintain these assets. Budget 2007 proposes to address these needs by providing $30 million on a cash basis in capital and operating funding over the next two years to the NCC. On a budgetary basis, this amounts to $11 million.
The NCC Mandate Review Panel had recommended that the Commission be given an extra $25 million per year, so they got about half. Still, they are now in a better position to abandon further land sales – another of the Panel’s major recommendations.
What the government will do with this and other recommendations of the Panel remains to be seen.