Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  Yes. It depended on which departments we looked at. I believe in 2017 we were looking at all the economic opportunity ones—Atlantic and Quebec—and that was probably not something they would even think of. Some of the earlier departments would have been some of the big departments

Environment committee  Definitely. I was pleased to hear that one of the very senior civil servants said, “Well, what about the other 7%?”

Environment committee  But you have to celebrate going from 40% to 90%.

Environment committee  I don't usually say anything good about anything—

Environment committee  —so I'm really happy to say something good about something. It's just part of my job.

Environment committee  Yes. You know, we need to be positive sometimes.

Environment committee  Not necessarily, no. That's the interesting part. Once you'd gone through the wringer once with us, the five or six, and then after the next year another five or six, I don't think the first five or six had any clue that we would ever come back to them and do all 26. I have to

Environment committee  Actually, I don't believe we've ever talked about communications in the past.

Environment committee  This was our first time. Sorry, I'm having a hard time hearing you guys way far away. I don't believe we ever audited the issue of communications in the past. This was our first time. I want to say that Health Canada had produced three bulletins that were very understandable fo

Environment committee  The cabinet directive came into effect in 1990.

Environment committee  Yes. We did between four and six different departments. Twenty-six departments are required to participate in the federal sustainable development strategy.

Environment committee  I haven't done an audit on the science in these departments, so I really can't answer that. The departments are here, so you can ask them. That's what I would recommend.

Environment committee  In terms of the species at risk, it's very clear that Environment and Climate Change Canada had not met most of their deadlines for the development of recovery plans. Then, once the recovery plans were developed, they weren't meeting their targets for the action plan. In a coup

Environment committee  What we looked at in our audit was whether or not marine protected areas were a tool that was being used to protect marine mammals specifically. Marine protected areas are established for a variety of different reasons. Environment and Climate Change Canada established them for