Environment is a shared jurisdiction between the two levels of government. I understood it to apply to federal institutions, for sure, but I think it also applies to federal functions. The federal government spends a lot of money on shared-cost projects in various jurisdictions. Cities are massively important for sustainability in the 21st century. It seems to me that when the federal government is expending federal dollars in federal jurisdictions with respect to air quality and other things that are part of the consideration--navigable waters, fish, and so on....
More importantly, we want to be able to show Canadians what's happening across the board. What's the picture? What's the relationship between these general goals and the sort of concrete progress we're making?