Mr. Chairman, it's important to make a distinction between two different things. We often talk about an action plan on climate change that the government is currently developing, but there is also what is called the machinery of government, which has nothing to do with that plan. Knowing exactly what system will be put in place to account for progress and costs has nothing to do with a plan.
Mr. Bigras has raised the same question we have been raising: what are the results? And let's be clear: although my report was tabled in late September, people in the departments were aware of the recommendations long before that. So they could have started to address these issues.
Mr. Bigras also talked about governance. This is something the Treasury Board has left up in the air for months now. In conducting our own work, we were incapable of finding out when the government would present a governance structure defining roles and responsibilities.
So, the plan is one thing, and the internal departmental mechanism that will allow us to know, in a year or two, how much money has been spent and what the results are, is quite another. That mechanism is not yet in place and has nothing to do with the plan itself.