Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to talk about the sustainable development strategy and have a look at the public transit tax credit, a bit like a case study.
In 2008, Parliament passed the Godfrey bill, which requires you to study the targets Environment Canada will have put in place by June 2010. In Chapter 1 of your report, it says that:
Finance Canada did not provide documentation that it had assessed the key environmental and economic impacts of the Public Transit Tax Credit—
and that:
The Department provided a copy of its strategic environmental assessment but was unable to show how it was integrated into the Department's overall analysis under the Framework, since it too constituted a Cabinet confidence.
Over the next months and years, you will have to audit the sustainable development strategy. How will you be able to do that if some departments, including the Department of Finance, refuse to submit overall analyses? Is this systemic? Do all departments do this? If the Department of Finance has the same attitude towards the sustainable development strategy audit as it had towards this document during the tax credit audit, there will be problems. Do you feel that, under the circumstances, this type of approach by the departments will complicate your work?