Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome back, Mr. Commissioner.
Thanks to my colleagues for allowing me to sit in on behalf of my colleague Ms. Collins.
I was at the meeting, Commissioner, when you presented your report on the emissions reduction plan. Reading this report, it feels a bit like Groundhog Day. There are many of the same findings or similar findings around the lack of progress and the slow pace of change.
As someone who wants to see.... In opposition, many times, you get a sense that people aren't necessarily cheering for the government to succeed because they would like to replace it, but in this case, I think everyone should really want Canada to achieve our targets and address this critical issue that is such a huge threat to the future.
I thought I would ask a question about comparing your report on the emissions reduction plan and its findings with your report today. What things have changed in the time between those two reports?
Do you feel that the government took your recommendations from the emissions reduction report seriously and acted with a sense of urgency so it could get a different prognosis when you came back to the environment committee?