Environment committee  Well, Mr. Chairman, if I may suggest, it would depend on what was in the bill. There are certainly things one would want to consider.

Environment committee  Mr. Chairman, certainly that committee he referred to hasn't met recently. We can find little evidence, actually, that there's been very much of substance going on at the centre to drive these strategies as part of an overarching government process to put in place sustainable dev

Environment committee  For the most part, I would agree with you, but on the last couple of points, not necessarily. There is validation of commitments made on a department-by-department basis. We do that as part of our mandate, and we report 11 of those in this particular chapter. But in terms of hav

Environment committee  Mr. Godfrey, Mr. Chairman, I haven't really looked at other countries in any detail on this. We're hoping that this will be done by the government as it conducts the review that they have committed to undertaking. In terms of overarching goals, this year the Department of the En

Environment committee  Mr. Chairman, that's a very good question. We debated long and hard on how to craft this recommendation, Mr. Godfrey. We felt very strongly that we needed one recommendation--that it was time to pause and reflect before going forward for a fifth round. This begged the question,

Environment committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. We are simply delighted to be here to discuss our 2007 annual report. It was tabled in the House of Commons on October 30. I am accompanied by our two principals, Andrew Ferguson and Richard Arseneault. This report covers two issues funda

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Warawa, it certainly is proceeding. We have a group of about 40 or 45 environmentalists who are also auditors, who are highly motivated young men and women. We have a report due for October that is going to be the statutory work—work on petitions, work