Environment committee  What I would say is that dealing with the issue of climate change is clearly complicated. There is no one action that is going to change everything. I cannot at this point give you the assurance that we're heading in the right direction. I would have to audit the activities

Environment committee  I can't comment on the U.S. situation, but I would say that I was surprised at how few departments had done full, comprehensive assessments of climate change risks within their mandate and their provision of services to Canadians. We found that only five out of 19 departments

Environment committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Again, I think that the made-in-Manitoba climate change and green plan was done after your report, but I would recommend that you have a look at it because it's probably the most comprehensive response to climate change in Canada. What I like about

Environment committee  Quebec's Office of the Auditor General decided not to carry out an audit because it had already done some for climate change. For more information, you would have to ask Quebec's Office of the Auditor General. They were partners, but not participants.

Environment committee  You also stated in your presentation that 5 out of 19 federal departments had carried out a climate change risk assessment. That therefore means that 63% of federal departments have not done their job.

Environment committee  In fact, 14 out of 19 federal departments had not done a comprehensive assessment of the risks associated with climate change.

Environment committee  At the end of my presentation, I indicated that we have developed the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change. This is one of the best plans that we have had to date to tackle climate change. It brings in every single department and every single province

Environment committee   could work on something collaboratively. I don't think anybody expected that we'd get everybody in the tent on such a big piece of work, on climate change. I think that encouraging auditors general to do more collaboration is something that parliamentarians can do. It would require

Environment committee   different names in different countries. Many, I presume, are working on issues related to climate change. Can you describe for me the nature of the collaboration that is ongoing and say whether or not there are opportunities for further engagement of yourselves, as our Canadian

Environment committee  What I can tell you, is that Quebec was a partner, but that the province did not do a new climate change assessment.

Environment committee   represents 23% of the population, and perhaps a little more in terms of territory. I would like you to explain something. Exhibit 6 says: The federal government began to make progress under the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change. Saying “began to make” is vague

Environment committee  As I said, we found that 5 departments out of 19 had done full climate change risk assessments. That is the issue here. There were 14 departments that did not complete one. They started the work, but they did not complete it.

Environment committee  I would like to go back to that. Earlier, I said that 63% of federal departments had not done the work, but in fact, it is 73% of them. So 73% of federal departments did not do climate change risk assessments. That means that three quarters of all federal departments have

Environment committee  In your presentation, you said that even Environment and Climate Change Canada had unfortunately not led by example. How can we explain the government's ongoing claims that it will now be a green government, that it will establish active practices to be more conscientious

Environment committee  As I told you, in our audit, we found that 14 departments had not conducted a full assessment of the risks associated with their mandates, and Environment and Climate Change Canada was one of them.