Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  In the case of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, there was a five-point plan to get to the 10% of marine protected areas. In the case of the natural capital and Statistics Canada, to be honest, they came up with that on their own, so it's a result of leadership within the d

Environment committee  Well, as auditors, we were looking for that planning framework, right?

Environment committee  Have you got the engagement? Have you got the resources? Have you done your communication? Has somebody said, “This is important”? Also, then, have you got your measuring and monitoring system? That's what auditors general have agreed to do around the world. This was our contribu

Environment committee  That is not something I looked into. I simply stated a public fact.

Environment committee  Science is never complete, right? You can always keep studying things. We did find that the government was looking at some of the science on disease and parasite transmission, the effects of drugs and pesticides, and the genetic interaction, so it's not as if they were doing no

Environment committee  We found several. In terms of monitoring the health of wild fish, at this point the department had made a commitment to complete 10 risk assessments for the principal farmed-fish diseases. They had only completed one out of 10. We also found that between the CFIA and the Depart

Environment committee  We have to be really clear here. I was looking to see whether or not the government was prepared to implement...and we had seven specific criteria. Was a there commitment and responsibility identified? Canada got a tick mark for that. Have they established a governance structure

Environment committee  We were looking to see whether the department had that information. What we found is that nobody is monitoring the health of wild fish; therefore, the department doesn't really know if net pen farming is affecting wild salmon stocks. We also found that there was no threshold for

Environment committee  I can't make that link. We didn't look at that link in our report. I can tell you—and this is public information—that the State of Alaska and the State of Washington have decided to no longer have open net-pen aquaculture. The only place in North American on the west coast where

Environment committee  Sorry?

Environment committee  I don't know on what basis.... I do know that the department was supposed to complete 10 risk assessments on key diseases, and they had only completed one out of those 10.

Environment committee  We did not look at that, unfortunately.

Environment committee  Sorry, Bob, I can tell you that DFO does set conditions for site locations and expansions. They have prohibited new and expanded sites in areas of high salmon migration. They have done that. They set conditions to monitor and control diseases and pests. They also do fish health a

Environment committee  We indicated in paragraph 3.8 several public reports that have highlighted Canada's biodiversity challenges. These reports are publicly available. We are simply providing you with them for context or perspective. They are not one of our findings.