In other words, there is a template to be completed when you file these Treasury Board submissions and MCs. In there, there is a box that you need to complete, so to speak, on these environmental assessments and also on GBA. The Treasury Board analysts or the PCO analysts look at these documents and they understand that there is a requirement to actually be asking whether you've done an environmental assessment in one of the boxes. With the GBA one, if they just say N/A or don't fill it in, it may not get the same level of challenge because there is no underlying mandate to compel the department to do that. It's kind of expected. You've committed to do so, so if you put something there, the rigour might differ somewhat when you are in the shoes of the analyst looking at these submissions.
On February 25th, 2016. See this statement in context.