Thanks very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Commissioner, for being here. You're here so often that it's like you're a member of the committee. Thank you to all members of the departments for being here and for your expertise.
I don't have to tell you, Julie, that our committee studied both the federal sustainable development strategy and the act. You've reminded us of that definitive separation between the two many times. I'll say that we did as a committee share your concern that many departments in the past weren't developing and implementing sustainable development strategies. It didn't seem that the cabinet directive was being taken seriously or applied.
Now to go on a bit with what Mr. Roberge was saying, I'm really happy to see that in 2017, under our government, it says here that “263 of 283 proposals submitted for approval to Cabinet...had the Cabinet directive applied”. I think that's somewhere from 40% to over 90%, which is significant. You know I'm an optimist. I'm looking for some of the improvements, and I'm also fairly patient.
We've heard from the department on what they feel they've done, but from your perspective, can you highlight the changes and improvements that you've seen during the audit and compare it with maybe the last three audits you've done?