I share your frustration. I believe I can also speak on behalf of the commissioner of the environment and sustainable development to say that he does also.
Many of my reports in the past year have actually raised, exactly as you mentioned, long-standing, known issues with limited action. I hope that at the end of my 10-year mandate I'm not still asking the government to act on known issues in a faster way.
I do think it's time for us, as an organization, to follow up on really important matters—which we're going to do. We have a new product available on our website through which you can search through past recommendations or results to see how the government is doing. We're hoping that additional pressure will help drive action.
Having committees studying reports and asking for action plans will help drive action, so I'm very happy that the public accounts committee is doing that. I was also very happy to see that the environment committee recently adopted the same motion—to ask all entities that are audited to provide an action plan.
It is sustained pressure from Parliament, but it's also concrete actions—not just planning, strategies and announcements but some real concrete actions—from the government to see some change.