Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  In my opening statement in paragraph 13, where departmental officials are still looking for clarity, this again will be in the regulations, so what is the project list going to be? My understanding right now is that the comprehensive studies project list will essentially be the

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  Again, and I wouldn't say “red flags”, but I would say—

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  Let me just say that it would be very similar to what both Mr. Bonnett and Dr. Schindler said. It's not a concern, but it is an area of clarification that will need to be sorted out during the development of the regulations. The proposed changes to the fish habitat policy make re

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  That's absolutely correct, yes.

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  No. Our office would not be mandated to look at a bill. Our office would only be mandated to look at when an act is finalized, because a bill is policy and we stay out of policy. So that would be outside the scope of our office.

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  We're starting. Obviously, we're looking at this with great interest, and we've had various interviews with departmental officials because it's going to affect some work we have under way right now. One example would be the offshore petroleum boards for both Newfoundland and Labr

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  It was included in the sense that we had referenced it as a subsequent event to the period of the audit. We also included it in the perspective at the beginning of that report, where I said what I've just said now: significant progress on behalf of the government.

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  I would absolutely say it's good progress. We've looked very closely at what the government released in March 2011 and July 2011, and the six different chapters and the plan they've announced are significant, rigorous, robust, and peer-reviewed. We're looking forward now to its i

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  I am, and I think what the Province of Alberta is doing on regional planning and land use planning is very important. We don't have the mandate to audit what the provinces are doing. If I may, though, it was a very simple point, and it was simply that one of the issues that led

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  Absolutely. Yes.

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  Thank you, Chair. I hope it will be under 10 minutes. I also hope it will be useful for the committee to refer to three past audits of relevance to the current deliberations. As you can understand, I cannot comment on any policy matters related to this discussion, so I hope it

Environment committee  It was not included because it is not yet completed. I think it was begun, by coincidence or not, while we were doing this audit. I'll ask my colleague, Mr. Sloan, to comment.

Environment committee  One of the findings was to have a standardized closure system, and as Mr. Sloan said, it's important that what one ministry determines to be closed, the other ministry has the same criteria. It is important to be able to say it is being closed for the right reasons. So yes, it is

Environment committee  I have two CAs at the table so I'm not going to venture into liability. Let me ask Bruce or Trevor.

Environment committee  What I would say is this. This approach is based on regulations. It's not based on other measures, so yes, this is the first approach I've seen here or elsewhere, including the United States, where the entire approach is based on regulations.