Mr. Matt Jones at the Environment and Sustainable Development Committee

On December 2nd, 2020. See this statement in context.

December 2nd, 2020 / 5:35 p.m.

Assistant Deputy Minister, Pan-Canadian Framework Implementation Office, Department of the Environment

Not necessarily. It's really typical for these kinds of programs to take a little bit of time to get established, for the proposals to come in and be evaluated, for agreements to be signed, and then for them to start the implementation process. There tends to be a bit of a lag—

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