Thank you for the question.
On your first point about outcomes versus outputs, I completely agree. Auditor General Hogan and I both wish to focus our performance audit work on value to Canadians—that is, whether the outcomes that are being sought by the various federal government objectives are being achieved, as opposed to whether there are just outputs being measured, such as money spent, as in the example you used. I agree with you completely on that point.
In terms of global emissions and the challenge of climate change, which is an international and an intergenerational challenge, as you mentioned, in our lessons learned report, which this committee looked at a little earlier this session, we have looked at some of these broader issues you talked about. This is a whole-of-society problem that needs to be looked at, not just in terms of Canadian emissions but also worldwide emissions. That's why, for example, if we have an increase in production in one region and not in another, it may not necessarily result in a net increase, because there may be a decrease somewhere else. So yes, absolutely we are interested in that.
The current geopolitical situation needs to be addressed. The just transition we're talking about in this report is of a longer-term nature, to 2030 and 2050 and so on, and that is happening. The International Energy Agency is quite clear that this transition will happen, but that doesn't mean we have to ignore current realities. They need to be addressed as well.
Canada's role as a G7 nation has been disproportionately poor, I would say, in terms of emission reductions. We're the only one since 1990 to have increased GHG emissions. We do look at our performance in regard to others, while recognizing that there are important energy security and geopolitical situations that may drive shorter-term changes that need to be looked at as well.