If we had done a strategic environmental assessment, then we would probably have established that there were links to be made. Unfortunately, such was not the case. The department did not do its duty. The implementation of a strategic environmental assessment is a requirement. Cabinet decided in 1990 that this would be a requirement on the part of departments.
Finance Canada, when we did our audit, had not yet committed to doing that. Since then, however, we have clarified the way in which the department works and it has put a system in place. We have not yet verified that the system is working properly, but at the time, the department was not doing this auditing. It had told us, in response to an environmental petition we had received, that there was a system in place. But when we did our audit, we realized that that was not so.