Environment committee  A couple of the protected area systems have almost zero money. When you look at national wildlife areas, they have a little more money than migratory bird sanctuaries, probably nothing. There's no money for bird conservation regions and conservation strategies. There's lots of mo

Environment committee  Madam Chair, I'm pleased to present an overview of our audit work tabled in the House of Commons in 2012 and 2013 with regard to terrestrial and marine parks, and conservation areas. I'm accompanied by George Stuetz, Francine Richard, and James Reinhart, directors who were resp

Environment committee  I don't think I've said it, but other people have said it.

Environment committee  That's good, Veterans Affairs, Heritage.... We're missing one, and I'm in four or five right now.

Environment committee  They're random. I know Agriculture was in there for sure.

Environment committee  No.

Environment committee  Not off the top of my head.

Environment committee  We have to go through all 26 departments on a cyclical basis, so we're picking four or five at a time.

Environment committee  If I may, I think we need to separate out the Federal Sustainable Development Act from the cabinet directive on strategic environmental assessment. I've reported to you that in my last chapter on the strategic environmental assessment tool cabinet directive, we found that five o

Environment committee  For the sustainable development strategies and goals, it's been a long time. Do I know the exact date...?

Environment committee  No, it hasn't been 30 years.

Environment committee  It was 1997, so that's almost 30 years.

Environment committee  What we talked about was a cabinet directive on strategic environmental assessment, which is different from the sustainable development strategy.

Environment committee  It probably would. I mean, right now the directive is a directive, and it's not linked to the FSDA. They are two separate pieces.

Environment committee  You have the act and you have a cabinet directive. My suggestion was to take the cabinet directive and bake it into the act, so that you have to report; you have to apply the cabinet directive. That was the suggestion that you might want to consider.