Environment committee  I don't believe we went into that level of detail. What we did find was that the coast guard has decreased, by 33 ship days, the total time it plans to deploy in the Arctic. At the same time, we know that vessel traffic is increasing. We recommend that the coast guard improve its

Environment committee  Mr. Chair, I'm not sure we did as detailed an analysis as Dennis is recommending or is asking in terms of each ship and what they would do. What we did find was that they're on average 30 years old, that we plan to extend the operation of five of the vessels by anywhere from eigh

Environment committee  Specifics? I'm going to pass it over to Bruce for that level of specificity.

Environment committee  The CEAA 2012 is a brand new piece of legislation. We're only two years into it, so the idea was to do.... You have a name for it—

Environment committee  Right. It's a systems under development audit. That's very specific language for auditors. We were basically looking at how well they were doing in the implementation right at the front end of a new law, as a way of trying to provide guidance and help if things are kind of off

Environment committee  We looked through memorandums to cabinet and Treasury Board submissions, and we looked in particular at approximately 47 of them.

Environment committee  In about a third of the cases, there was information that stopped before it got to ministers. It was both positive impacts on the environment that did not go up to ministers and negative impacts on the environment. Now due to the secrecy of the documents, I don't believe we can

Environment committee  But we did look at 45 of them. We found that in two-thirds, the cabinet directive was being properly applied. In one-third of the cases, there was information, as I say, with positive environmental impact that was not getting to the ministers, as well as some with negative impact

Environment committee  I don't believe I am, Mr. Woodworth. I believe that the first three years of the implementation of this plan is what we audited. It has always been the intention of that original document that you mentioned, to do a long.... Monitoring takes many years. We need decades of inf

Environment committee  This is a very technical question, and so I am going to pass it over to Bruce to help with this.

Environment committee  It's two different things. It's a different timeframe. It's also a different thing—thing one and thing two—in terms of what was audited. They looked at what was contained in the report. We looked at Environment Canada and the work plans, the projects on the ground, and how well E

Environment committee  The information that I got was from a recent report from Natural Resources Canada. I don't have the level of detail in that question off the top of my head, but we could get back to you on that. It would be in the NRCan report, I'm pretty sure.

Environment committee  That's probably basic science, but I—

Environment committee  It is, but I'm an auditor, and I can only do what I do.

Environment committee  Not in this report, no, we did not.