Environment Committee on June 2nd, 2016

Evidence of meeting #20 for Environment and Sustainable Development in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was infrastructure.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Reports of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development - Spring 2016
Committee Business

MPs speaking

Deb Schulte
William Amos
Ed Fast
Fin Donnelly
Mark Gerretsen
Dianne Lynn Watts
Mike Bossio
Martin Shields
Darren Fisher

Also speaking

Julie Gelfand  Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, Office of the Auditor General of Canada
Marc Fortin  Assistant Deputy Minister, Program Operations, Infrastructure Canada
Lori MacDonald  Assistant Deputy Minister, Emergency Management and Programs Branch, Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
Hilary Geller  Assistant Deputy Minister, Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch, Department of Health
Bogdan Makuc  Director, Program Operations, Program Integration, Infrastructure Canada
Christine Norman  Director, Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch, Department of Health
Andrew Ferguson  
Kimberley Leach  Principal, Sustainable Development Strategies, Audits and Studies, Office of the Auditor General of Canada

12:40 p.m.

Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, Office of the Auditor General of Canada

Julie Gelfand

I am suggesting that you might want to think about how the public accounts committee deals with the Auditor General reports and deal with ours in the same way. At public accounts, the Auditor General reports to the public accounts committee and the departments must provide an action plan. You could do the same thing in this committee.

12:40 p.m.

NDP

Fin Donnelly NDP Port Moody—Coquitlam, BC

Okay, then I'll withdraw my—

12:40 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte

Okay, I think we all know what we're looking for. Is there any confusion on what we're looking to have happen?

Yes, Mr. Amos.

12:40 p.m.

Liberal

William Amos Liberal Pontiac, QC

I'd like to speak to that.

Are we in consensus that we're going to spend additional time on this and make that determination now: I'm not in agreement/I am in agreement?

12:40 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte

No, that's not what we're discussing. That one is for future discussions at a subcommittee meeting. This is specifically to request that those who have come forward to us, come back and update us on progress made on the recommendations in the report. It was agreed by everyone who spoke that they were going to draw up plans in response and would address these issues. We would have them come back in a year and report back on progress. That's it.

Are we all in favour?

12:40 p.m.

Some hon. members

Agreed.

12:40 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte

Is anyone opposed?

Great, we have that set.

I'm going to have to ask everyone to clear the room. I have a really short time.

[Proceedings continue in camera]