Environment committee  I'm not sure there's a question there, but—

Environment committee  I started this comment, I think, with Mr. Choquette's question. We have a projection of emissions going forward based on measures that are currently in place, announced and currently in place. That doesn't tell us about what the effects are of any future actions at the federal level, provincial-territorial level—

Environment committee  Well, we're basing our projections off the 2012 national inventory report data, and we project forward. There are two things I would say, as a forecaster, in response to that. I think there are uncertainties about what future actions will be taken and what the impacts of those are—

Environment committee  We respond to the recommendation. And the recommendation, I can look back to it—

Environment committee  Again, the response was a response to the recommendation itself, which was focused on the planning process that the commissioner was recommending. So what we were accepting.... Quite honestly, as a public servant, we can always do better at some of these things. The recommendation was clear that we needed to work on a planning process with other federal departments, engaging provinces and territories—

Environment committee  In terms of the process we go through, we discuss the report with the commissioner, and we focus our formal response on the recommendations. That's what we've put on paper there.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  I guess I hadn't thought of it that way. My take on it was that—

Environment committee  We will try.

Environment committee  I suppose it is better to answer your questions in the order in which you asked them, starting with the one about working with the provinces.

Environment committee  That's okay.

Environment committee  The recommendation was that we plan our efforts better with the provinces and other federal departments. We accept the commissioner's recommendation that we work better with our colleagues in other departments and with the provinces and territories. We accepted that recommendation.

Environment committee  As Mr. Beale explained, we hold many bilateral and multilateral discussions with the provinces. These discussions are probably not regular enough, but we discuss almost all our initiatives with the provinces. I believe I mentioned at the beginning of my presentation that the environment ministers met in Prince Edward Island in September.

Environment committee  Yes. I'll talk, and certainly my colleagues can add comments. We talk to the provinces in a number of different fora. At the officials level the deputy minister meets with his provincial counterparts on a regular basis to discuss regulatory actions, and my colleagues do as well.

Environment committee  I think we both do. We'll stick to 10 minutes.