Environment committee  No. As you know, I am going to leave that with Ms. Leach. We have obviously taken great interest in reading the latest report. The report mentions an increase of two million tonnes in greenhouse gas emissions. The conclusion in our report has not changed at all. We said that we

Environment committee  What we've said in this report today is that the government did not comply with the act. We've said that there has been improvement in the plans; nevertheless, the plans did not contain everything that was required in the act, particularly the equitable distribution among sectors

Environment committee  They did not comply. Yes.

Environment committee  First of all, the decision to repeal the act was a policy decision, and it wouldn't be for me to comment on. What I would say is that under the Auditor General Act, our office has the mandate and responsibility to audit programs of significant interest to parliamentarians. So th

Environment committee  Yes. I may ask my colleague, Trevor Shaw, to explain it in a little more detail. The classification of those—as you said, over 800 sites—are class 1, which are high priority. They are classified high priority because they are either close to a community, or close to human populat

Environment committee  If I may, Mr. Chair, it is complicated. You're quite right. If nothing happened, based on no interventions from the federal government and no interventions from the provincial governments, they would be 178 million tonnes over. The real number, of all these numbers, is 178 millio

Environment committee  It will move, but that's the ballpark. It gives you some sense of it. It may be 182 million tonnes.

Environment committee  I think, Mr. Chair, that absolutely, they are serious. Environment Canada is serious. I respect enormously the work these people are doing. This is difficult. Bringing down greenhouse gas emissions is not easy, and so—

Environment committee  They are serious. They are moving ahead. I hope I'm wrong in 2020. But we've said, and so have others, that right now, there's not enough there and there's not enough time.

Environment committee  That's correct.

Environment committee  I think it was even better than that. I think it was 0.25%.

Environment committee  That's correct.

Environment committee  Exactly. I think one of the things we said was that they were absolutely good first steps on the 2020. Just to be very clear, there are a whole bunch of things we've said are very positive. But right now, it's unclear what the plans are and what the next steps are. If the econ

Environment committee  I think that, nevertheless, the goal is to bring it down by 178 million tonnes, and the most recent data shows an increase of two million tonnes. The gap is closing, but the direction isn't going downwards. The direction is still going upwards. That's the real challenge, which of

Environment committee  In Quebec, there is a total of 2,300 contaminated sites, all categories included. I have the data for Montreal. There are 168 sites or so. Of those, 15 are on the Island of Montreal, which is in the category of higher risk sites.