Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, through you to Mr. Lake, yes, I am, actually. I think this hearing has been a very good hearing to shine a spotlight on a very important issue for this government. The other witnesses at the table certainly are working in an area that is important, and seem to be ma

Public Accounts committee  Thank you very much, sir.

Public Accounts committee  Monday morning.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, through you to Mr. Comartin, certainly I agree with Ms. Meredith that there's a need for flexibility from time to time, but there's a great difference between having some flexibility to respond to particular circumstances of departments and having what I'd call a “r

Public Accounts committee  We're not there yet, in my opinion, Mr. Comartin, but I think we could be relatively soon, hopefully.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, through you to Mr. Comartin, I am very hopeful, frankly, that the government officials here, working over the next 18 months, will put in place a system that we think will work; that will have a clear driver, somebody who will make the greening of government operati

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, through you to Mr. Comartin, yes, we could go in and have a look at not so much the RPPs but the DPRs, where performance would be reported. But I think another layer of audit is internal audit within government departments and agencies. I would hope that internal au

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for that question. A direct answer is yes, I think a lot of people do care quite a bit about this issue. I think the colleagues here at the table care very deeply about trying to have the government green its operations. Today, having them here to discuss what they're

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, this one from the U.K. is only in English, I'm afraid.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, we haven't audited the U.K. experience. We've certainly looked at it, and what we see, at least on the surface, is quite appealing. Here is the chart, for example, that comes out of that exercise, which shows which departments are doing well and which are doing poor

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, first, I don't know that it's fair for us to adduce from the report that 21 out of 28 haven't met their targets. I think that's maybe stretching things a bit. But it's maybe not the most important issue either. In terms of targets, we find it difficult to have a s

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, through you to Mr. Comartin, we have done a status report, as you know. We do that from time to time. In terms of looking at progress on this file, I don't have any particular audits on the books right now that would address that--it's a little early to do that, I

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, to Mr. Lussier's question, whether it should be $10 million or some other amount, I don't know, but I can assure you that I'm glad there is an organization created within PWGSC like this—these are my words, not the department's words, I guess, but a centre of excell

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, sir, I don't know, and I'm not really prepared to answer that. I wonder if I might invite one of our colleagues from the government to respond to you.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Mr. McGuinty. We looked at all 28 sustainable development strategies. Seven of the 28 departments we looked at had addressed all of the guidance. In terms of specific targets that could be rolled up, that one could hold a department to account for, ve