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Environment committee Yes, that's exactly it.
March 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand
Environment committee In its own operation, in greening government....
March 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand
Environment committee The Public Works witness, Duncan, might be able to answer in terms of reporting on emissions, from the greening of government. Are you measuring that? We could definitely look into it, in terms of an audit. That's a potential audit subject, right?
March 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand
Environment committee I'm sorry. You mean measuring what, exactly—the environmental effects?
March 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand
Environment committee I'm just going to check, Mr. Amos, whether you're asking what needs to change in order for the government to achieve measurability of climate emissions. Is that what you're asking?
March 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand
Environment committee Absolutely. The government prepares its annual emissions report to the UN. You could ask the government to report more frequently to you, to me, to review those reports. I remember our last audit on climate, where we looked at some of the regulations that have been put in place,
March 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand
Environment committee There's no transparency on the weighting. How cabinet decides is a cabinet confidence. However, the cabinet directive that we're talking about on strategic environmental assessment does require public reporting when a scan leads to an assessment, and then a decision is made. It's
March 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand
Environment committee First of all, it's hardly ever done; therefore, it's hardly ever made public. I believe that in my last report we found one out of four departments, with all the proposals and all the cabinet ones, we found one that was made public.
March 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand
Environment committee In May of this year I'll be issuing three chapters of my next report. In there we're looking at the federal role in getting ready for severe weather. The building code is one of the things we looked at, so you'll be interested in that. We also are looking at infrastructure spendi
March 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand
Environment committee Yes, every proposal does, according to the directive.
March 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand
Environment committee Every proposal for which there could be important environmental effects, either negative or positive, does.
March 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand
Environment committee That's right. There's a little bit more.
March 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand
Environment committee That's correct.
March 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand
Environment committee What we're finding is they're not applying it at all.
March 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand
Environment committee Five cases out of 1,700.
March 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand