Thank you.
On behalf of the Liberal members on this side, thank you for your opening statement about the loss of one of our long-time public servants. We echo your sentiment. Our condolences go to the members of the family, the friends, and all the public servants.
My question is on the effectiveness of one of the mandates of the centre for greening government, and this question goes to all. I am hoping to hear back from you individually.
As you know, the centre for greening government is the leading agency that is going to implement the greening strategy. They recently released some data for 2017-18 indicating that the federal operations emissions were reduced by about 32% from the 2005 levels, and there is about 4% improvement from the previous year.
One of the four mandates that piqued my interest is the goal to “integrate knowledge from other leading organizations and share best practices broadly”. As I look at the vast stakeholder group here, my question to each one of you is, to what extent has that integration of knowledge and the sharing of best practices been facilitated by the centre?
Let's start with Mr. Wayland.