Environment committee  We have quite a number of recommendations. We're still working on them.

Environment committee  Some of them I've already shared in the opening statement. There's another thing—and perhaps this gets to the governance issue that David raised as well—we think should be done, which could be an important improvement, Rather than simply doing a lot of bottom-up collection—and

Environment committee  It should be more top-down, more directed towards priorities.

Environment committee  We'll have a lot more to say in the fall. In the fall we are going to be reporting on the first substantive progress report, which was tabled, as I mentioned, in February, at the same time as the draft strategy. So I'll defer, if I may, to what we will have to say in October. I

Environment committee  I made several points. Some of this is simply going through and sifting the important from the unimportant. Some of it is quite easily achieved. That was something in our review. We found a lot of improvements that are quite easy to achieve in this draft. I'd also point out spe

Environment committee  We are in the process of doing that detailed work. In two short weeks, we'll have that out as a public report for the minister. On the governance point, that's an excellent question. The easiest thing is, there's a fifth theme that isn't in the strategy, and it's about integrat

Environment committee  The government has some tools now, things like strategic environmental assessment. That's attempting to look at new proposals. It's related to that project de loi to look at new decisions, to analyze the environmental impacts as well as the social and economic ones. There are som

Environment committee  We have not done such a comparative study on the various approaches to reduce greenhouse gases. However, we will soon be updating an audit carried out a few years ago, according to which we have estimated or projected how well the government was doing in terms of meeting its 20

Environment committee  Thank you for the question. My predecessor, Mr. Vaughan, completed a study on financial subsidies. That was included in our report in February. I am not an expert in this area, but we noted a few points of interest during that study, that is to say regarding most of the subsidie

Environment committee  Yes, we would be very pleased to give you more explanations concerning this study if the committee—

Environment committee  Thank you for the question. I met with Mr. Jacob to discuss his bill. In theory, we support the idea of always taking sustainable development considerations into account when decisions are made. It is a very important aspect of this concept of sustainable development, that is to

Environment committee  As I mentioned, we are very strong supporters of this federal sustainable development strategy. The problem with the old system—and we used the analogy of trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle—was what we had before were lots of pieces, but we never had the picture on the front

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's a pleasure to share our views on the draft federal sustainable development strategy. I'm joined today by Jim McKenzie, a senior colleague in the office. Under the Federal Sustainable Development Act, I'm required to review the draft strategy and provi