Evidence of meeting #18 for Public Accounts in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was reports.

A video is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Karen Hogan  Auditor General of Canada, Office of the Auditor General
Andrew Hayes  Deputy Auditor General, Office of the Auditor General
Lissa Lamarche  Assistant Auditor General and Chief Financial Officer, Office of the Auditor General

May 5th, 2022 / 12:45 p.m.

Lissa Lamarche Assistant Auditor General and Chief Financial Officer, Office of the Auditor General

As it relates to executive vehicles, there's only one executive vehicle in the organization, and I believe we've already converted it to hybrid. That is what we've done there.

I think Karen gave a good summary around greening meetings. We developed our last sustainable development strategy for 2023 before the pandemic. Within that plan, we had committed to doing several assessments of our operations to assess how green they were and where opportunities existed to further green those operations. At this point during the pandemic, that work was halted or not started, because we want to wait to see the future of our work environment in order to do this assessment in a relevant way.

I would offer that one of our more significant contributors to greenhouse gas emissions would be our business travel. That is an area that we want to look at closely, to evaluate ways in which we can reduce the footprint in that area, either by.... The pandemic has demonstrated that we're able to do a lot of our work without travelling, so I think it challenges the future of travel in making sure that we do the travel that needs to occur and that we don't do travel that can be done in a remote way.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative John Williamson

Thank you very much.

That ends the second round. I just want to thank the Office of the Auditor General and everyone for being here today and taking the time to answer our questions. I'm sure we will see many of you, if not all of you, again soon, within the next couple of weeks, either here in committee or outside of the committee. You are welcome to stay. We are just going to have two very quick votes here.

I will turn now to the members.

Shall vote 1 carry?

OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR GENERAL

Vote 1—Program expenditures..........$107,012,784

(Vote 1 agreed to on division)

Shall I report vote 1 under the Office of the Auditor General of Canada to the House?

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Some hon. members

Agreed.

On division.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative John Williamson

That has passed as well. Thank you very much.

I'm going to suspend this meeting now for a few minutes. Perhaps members could remain at their places. I'm the only one who has to come back into the meeting. I'm going to do that right away.

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Conservative

Philip Lawrence Conservative Northumberland—Peterborough South, ON

I'm sorry, Mr. Chair. I'd like just one minute. What we were going to do was just have the vice-chair stay and release everyone else. It's just to discuss the schedule. Do you want everyone? Do we have a draft?

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative John Williamson

That's fine. Let's discuss that. I will just be a second.

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Conservative

Philip Lawrence Conservative Northumberland—Peterborough South, ON

Okay.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative John Williamson

Since I'm the only one online I'll come right back into it, and we can do that.

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Conservative

Philip Lawrence Conservative Northumberland—Peterborough South, ON

I just wanted to let you know. No worries.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative John Williamson

That's no trouble.

[Proceedings continue in camera]