Environment committee  An important part of this is that we are doing the same kind of audit work that other countries are doing under the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions. We're asking of our government the questions that the other audit offices are also asking of their own gov

Environment committee  I was going to say that's a great question and we'd like to do more of that. The challenge is that it takes us 18 months to do an audit. If we know what you're looking at, we can better help work things together. A good example of where we did that was that we looked at marine ma

Environment committee  Yes. I think what you're referring to is our 2018 audit on the sustainable development goals, which looked at whether the government was prepared. It found that they weren't measuring, monitoring and verifying. In fact, we found that our government had 62% of the information ava

Environment committee  We made recommendations on measuring, monitoring and verifying and they agreed to those recommendations. We're following that up in our audit and we'll be reporting back to you.

Environment committee  The House has a petitions process, but this is a different petitions process, created under the Auditor General Act. Under the act, Canadians can write a letter to the Auditor General or the commissioner, and they are entitled to a response within 120 days. We have a website wher

Environment committee  You can see what petitions have been submitted. Approximately 500 petitions have been submitted since the process was created. You can search it by issue. If you have any questions on that, you can contact me directly. I can help.

Environment committee  I believe you're referring to the 2019 report that Andrew mentioned, in which we talked about the confusion, I guess, created by the federal sustainable development strategy and the federal approach to the sustainable development goals. More specifically, what we mean by that i

Environment committee  Thanks, Julie. I just wanted to point out that was a requirement at the first round of the gas tax to produce outcomes reports. Each province had to report on the outcomes. Those were required to go to Infrastructure Canada. Infrastructure Canada was going to report on that to P

Environment committee  As we mentioned in the audit, there are a couple of signatories that did not report on outcomes to Infrastructure Canada.

Environment committee  Yes, in some, but not all.

Environment committee  Yes, they had proceeded to the preliminary strategic environmental assessment, but had not proceeded to a more detailed strategic environmental assessment.

Environment committee  We did look at the breakdown.There are six icebreakers that provide services in the Arctic and an additional one that's dedicated to scientific research. Of the six, two are heavy-duty, if you will; three are medium; and one is a high-endurance ship.