Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much to the witnesses, Mr. Keenan and Ms. Weber, for coming to us today. I have appreciated your crisp and clear presentation.
Quite frankly, I'm very excited about this strategy simply because it does represent such a step forward and I think it's going to turbocharge the government's efforts on the environment.
I'll take one of the things you said, Mr. Keenan, as a starting point on that, that the draft strategy “represents the first significant improvement to sustainable development planning and reporting since 1995”.
As I understand it, in fact, the existing or previous system was established by the former Liberal government in 1995. Almost immediately it became subject to criticism and it was clear that it was not achieving the intended results.
What did that government do? Well, that government did nothing. That government did nothing for 11 long years.
In fact, in 2001-—