Merci, Chair.
The environment commissioner was pretty critical of funding programs for species at risk. He said, “Environment Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and Parks Canada have not met their legal requirements for establishing recovery strategies, action plans, and management plans under the Species at Risk Act.” He went on in some considerable detail and said, “Of these, 84 percent were overdue by more than three years as of 31 March 2013.”
Apparently, the department agrees with the findings of the commissioner.
What money in your supplementaries here, if any, is going to address the concerns of the environment commissioner?