Thank you both for your presentations.
I'll direct my first question to the commissioner.
In your fall report of 2013 you said:
Environment Canada has made little progress in monitoring activities, conditions, and threats for the protected areas it manages. The Department’s own assessments show a lack of proper inventories and insufficient information on species at risk.
Further on, you said:
...the Department does not know the extent to which actions called for in recovery documents have been implemented through its funding programs.
At the end, you said:
Environment Canada...[has] not met...[its] legal requirements for establishing recovery strategies, action plans, and management plans under the Species at Risk Act.
The main estimates 2015-16 show a decrease of $12.5 million for species at risk. I can't square your observations and the department's response.