Mr. Scott Vaughan at the Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38

On May 29th, 2012. See this statement in context.

May 29th, 2012 / 11 p.m.

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

I certainly would agree with you. The fines are a very clear signal within the act. We looked at fines in the past and said in past reports that they were low enough to have no effect. So increasing those fines would be aligned with something we found in past audits.

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