Fisheries committee  Absolutely it's real, and we are adapting now. We did another audit on severe weather which showed how much money was being spent by federal coffers to help provinces after disasters, and we saw a real spike in terms of the value. You could talk to the Insurance Bureau of Canad

Fisheries committee  Thank you.

Fisheries committee  I do.

Fisheries committee  Environment Canada issued a framework on adaptation, which asked each department to look at its climate change risks and to start getting ready to adapt, essentially. That adaptation framework was released in 2011. We noted that the Department of Fisheries and Oceans did its firs

Fisheries committee  It was in 2011.

Fisheries committee  Absolutely. They were ahead of the curve. Can I say that it's not often that I say anything positive about anything the government does?

Fisheries committee  I just want to be really clear. Audits usually find all the mistakes, everything that everybody hasn't done. I feel like I'm a grade-school teacher always hitting people over the head. It's such a pleasure to be able to say the department, and several departments in this case, ac

Fisheries committee  I don't have the breakdown of how much went to each department.

Fisheries committee  That would be a great question to ask the deputy minister.

Fisheries committee  Absolutely. What we found was that they did do good analyses. They did two of them. They were ahead of the curve. They've developed all kinds of tools. It's a comparative, so you compare it to the other departments. At some point I remember the director coming in and saying, “Whe

Fisheries committee  Nineteen different departments were assessed. Each department did its own risk assessment. When I look at the totality of all those, what I did not see was whether they were brought together, so that the centre of government could say there are bigger risks in fish than there are

Fisheries committee  I have them in a chart. There were 19, I keep forgetting which one's which. They were Health Canada, Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, Natural Resources Canada, and Transport Canada. Environment Canada was the lead. It was the one that developed the adaptation policy frame

Fisheries committee  Our audit covered the period from June 2010 to June 2017, a seven-year period. The adaptation framework was released in 2011. We started before the adaptation framework, which said that risks must be assessed. It came in during 2011, and we gave them six years.

Fisheries committee  Yes, we will be auditing it.

Fisheries committee  I can advise you that the office is giving the government a couple of years essentially. They announced it in December of 2016, and we're now into 2018, and we're planning our 2020 audits. After they make an announcement of a new plan, we normally give them a few years to impleme