I won't dwell on it, but my concern is that, despite substitution or equivalency agreements, the record in Alberta has been that we simply either don't do CEAA assessment at all...and there are no longer joint review panels. Absent an agreement, how is it that the federal assessments are not proceeding where those projects may impact first nations and fisheries?
I'll just leave it at that. I look forward to follow-up as CEAA is being implemented.
In the brief time I have left I'd like to follow up on what my colleague raised about monitoring. I also noted quite different reports by the Auditor General of Alberta—mind you, he was looking at what the Alberta government is doing—compared with your audit. But they are joint reports, and the Alberta auditor reported that these joint reports lacked clarity, and key information contained inaccuracies. They raised a concern that there's a lack of information-sharing between the two levels of government. The first public report wasn't transparent, and the first public report contained inaccuracies.
You have identified some things the federal government could do better, but I remain puzzled that the federal report seems somewhat more glowing than the provincial Auditor General review of exactly the same joint program.
It's a different year? Is that the difference?