Thank you for the question.
That is a policy choice of the government in allocating mandates to various departments to implement domestic and international commitments, and this just transition commitment is both. There's a domestic commitment and a commitment arising from the opening words of the Paris Agreement from 2015.
I share your concern. An international agreement that dates back seven years that included the notion of just transition has been in place, and a Canadian commitment to that from day one in Paris when Canada signed that agreement. I was surprised when we opened this file. The question I had was, is that all there is? Five or six years after the commitment was made, there's no governance structure, no legislation and no implementation plan....
I am pleased that the four organizations clearly have accepted all of our recommendations and have now committed to getting things in gear, but I am disappointed that it takes our opening up an audit file for things to get moving again. This department, Natural Resources Canada, was able to create from scratch the emissions reduction fund without a criterion regarding job retention during the pandemic. It chose to put this file, the just transition file, aside during that period. That's a choice it made and is one of the reasons why they're behind in implementing this very important commitment for Canadians, the affected communities and the affected workers.