Chapter 2 talks about the management of severe weather warnings. You say that the department is unable to verify the accuracy or the effectiveness of these warnings, that there is no automatic public warning system, that there is no strategy for facing the challenges in the monitoring system and that Environment Canada should create a management plan.
Some years ago, a number of Meteorological Service of Canada offices were closed. There were many layoffs. In Quebec, for example, the Rimouski office was closed and everything was centralized in Quebec City and Montreal. Are these cuts in financial and human resources reflected in your audit? Are these cuts partially responsible for the poor state of the verification system in the Meteorological Service of Canada?