Environment committee  May I just say a word? One thing I wanted to say to this committee was that the fact that this committee acted almost like a public accounts committee and was not particularly partisan, the whole time I was here, was wonderful to see. The questions you asked were good questions

Environment committee  No flowers?

Environment committee  From my recollection—I'll just look at Heather—I believe that the considerations are very similar in the definition of “inefficient”. Personally, when I looked at the definition of inefficient, I found this list of considerations to be so broad—

Environment committee  Right. Our colleague said that it sounds right to them, except that, if you're.... It depends on what you're looking at. Are you looking only at fiscal and economic efficiency, or, as you asked the question, are you looking at environmental and social inefficiency? We find the

Environment committee  I answered it? Okay.

Environment committee  There are two ways of doing that. One is for you as parliamentarians to ask them to come to you with an action plan and to come in front of you as you are doing now. The second way is by doing another audit on this topic, which we won't do right away, but we could do in the next

Environment committee  It will be somebody else, but you guys will be here...some of you.

Environment committee  We don't assess that. We haven't assessed that.

Environment committee  You guys can; that's your job.

Environment committee  That's a very broad question.

Environment committee  What I would say—and I've said this in the chapter zero that I write—is that, for example, today we're spending one hour on four reports. If this were in front of the public accounts committee, which is where the Auditor General's reports go, they would discuss each report for tw

Environment committee  Thank you.

Environment committee  Interestingly enough, when the Auditor General audits departments in performance audits, we don't actually look at that too much. We don't look at the financial side; that's what our financial people do. I think the best person to answer that question would be the officials.

Environment committee  It's three and a half for you, yes. For those guys, I was around as well.

Environment committee  No, I think you've read it exactly as it is, so I would go to the department.