Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I wanted to start with questions for the Office of the Auditor General.
In your introductory statement, you talked about two studies. One is with the Department of Finance Canada. The other one is with Environment and Climate Change Canada. Some of the summaries are as follows:
[The audit] found that the Department of Finance Canada's assessments to identify inefficient tax subsidies for fossil fuels were incomplete, and that advice it provided to the Minister was not based on all relevant and reliable information.
The Department of Finance Canada did not clearly define how a tax subsidy...would be inefficient.
With respect to the second audit, the audit concluded that ECC's “work to identify inefficient non-tax subsidies for fossil fuels was incomplete and not rigorous”, in part because ECC “used unclear definitions.” The audit also found that ECC “did not consider the economic, social, and environmental sustainability of subsidizing the fossil fuel sector” in its assessments.
Have any of these deficiencies, to the best of your knowledge, been remedied by either of these departments in the last three years?