Mr. Ron Thompson at the Environment and Sustainable Development Committee

Let me just jump in here, and I might get my colleague Mary Anne Strong to comment if she wishes.

There are some good things that have happened in that area, on that file. It's not all bad, even though the system isn't working the way it should. There have been some courses developed and given to departments on how to conduct these things. There is the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, which is sitting there ready to help departments do these things and do them well.

So in terms of those two findings from this chapter, Mr. McGuinty, I would say there are people within the federal government who indeed do know how to do these things.