Fisheries committee  The department, yes

Fisheries committee  But that's what I can talk about.

Fisheries committee  I'm sure the government has acknowledged that there is both natural climate change and man-made climate change.

Fisheries committee  My understanding, based on our audit, is that the answer would be, yes, they did a full risk assessment. The specifics of individual species would be a question to ask the department. Again, what did I go in and look at? We went in to see whether or not the department had looke

Fisheries committee  I'm pretty sure, yes. I believe the person responsible for inland harbours will be speaking to you right after. My understanding is yes.

Fisheries committee  I don't have the details of that.

Fisheries committee  It has assessed the risks, and it has developed a series of tools. In our other audit on the fisheries management plans, we made several recommendations to rebuild stocks. I was concerned about whether or not we could have another collapse of a stock. I believe it has already com

Fisheries committee  Yes, I would suggest that they have. We're also in the process of starting an audit on the whole issue of marine mammals. That will be coming out in the next year or so—a separate audit just on the management of marine mammals.

Fisheries committee  Again, unfortunately, that's not my role. My role is to identify risks that the Government of Canada may be facing. I can audit against commitments that the government has made. It's not within my purview to opine on what the commissioner sees.

Fisheries committee  What I would say is that the selection of my audits would be your indicator of what is of concern to me. By selecting audits like what's happening with marine mammals, what's happening with salmon farming, what's happening on adaptation, our leadership in getting all of the audit

Fisheries committee  Over the last few years, we've looked at climate change almost annually because that's a big one. That's a big issue that the government has indicated is a big issue. We've done a bunch of others. We did one on the National Energy Board. We've done one on the Canadian Nuclear Saf

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  I don't think anybody can stop the natural variability of the climate, but again, I'm not the scientist. My job is to look at what the government has said it's going to do—

Fisheries committee  In my role in the Office of the Auditor General, my job is to talk to you about the results of our audits. In my position, I cannot give you just opinions about things. I cannot opine. What I can tell you is that we did do an audit on Canada's investments in green, clean techno

Fisheries committee  Okay. For example, I am on an expert panel reviewing the German government's sustainable development strategy, and I'm heading off to be part of an international peer review for that. I would argue that many countries are reducing their greenhouse gas emissions, and while some of