Environment committee  That's the whole principle of sustainable development. I would argue that, in the past, economics was the only thing looked at. Then we added the social aspect. Usually socio-economic goes together. That's the analysis that's done. That's the lens taken on most decisions, and mos

Environment committee  It would not come from our office.

Environment committee  I would encourage that there be some form of standardization in the development of departmental sustainable development strategies. Questions they could ask themselves are: “How are our decisions, programs, and assets delivering on our international commitments; how are we applyi

Environment committee  If Canada is going to achieve the sustainable development goals that it has agreed to achieve, departments have to change a little in the way they think about things. They need to start thinking about things from the three angles: social, economic, and environmental. That has a h

Environment committee  They would apply the strategic environmental assessment cabinet directive to all their decisions. That would be number one, a very easy one. It's already there. It's something that, according to Ms. Duncan, is enforceable, and they are not doing it, which means that when a decisi

Environment committee  It would help if at least there's a provision saying, “We'd like you to report on international commitments. What have you done on those?” I haven't even thought about all the elements of standardization. What we have thought about is what we would do with 90 departments report

Environment committee  We will think about it.

Environment committee  We could, if you wish, definitely provide some advice—but not right this second—on what we think would be a standardized reporting mechanism. Can we do that?

Environment committee  Yes, and so do you.

Environment committee  Absolutely.

Environment committee  I agree.

Environment committee  Do we do that, or does the government do that?

Environment committee  I'm really sorry. I don't remember talking about 20% and 80%. If we're talking about the strategic environmental assessment cabinet directive, what we found was that most of the time it was not applied. We found a couple of departments that did a good job. Those were Parks Canad

Environment committee  You would have to ask them why they were different. I would suspect part of it was leadership. They saw the cabinet directive and said, “We're supposed to follow that. Let's do it.” Then, I think political will within the department is part of it.

Environment committee  If we're going to move to a sustainable development world, if we're going to try to achieve sustainable development and the sustainable development goals, each department should be looking at the SDGs, the ones that apply to them, and figuring out how they are going to help Canad