Environment committee  When I appear before the committee on this issue, I'll give you the recommendations at that time, if that's all right.

Environment committee  That's a definition that Parliament suggested?

Environment committee  It doesn't matter if I agree with it or not. The definition I use is the one the Government of Canada decided on.

Environment committee  I can tell you that we are doing an audit right now on the preparedness of the government to implement the sustainable development goals, basically all 17. We want to know how well prepared Canada is to implement the SDGs. That is part of an international effort of auditors gener

Environment committee  My job is to tell you whether the government is achieving its objectives. It set those target dates, and to date we have not met any of our targets.

Environment committee  Sure. I worked with the federal government for a few years at Parks Canada, maybe five years. Then I worked in the NGO sector, the non-governmental sector, for organizations like the Canadian Wildlife Federation and the Canadian Nature Federation. Then I worked for about five yea

Environment committee  I would say I have lots of experience in the area of environment and sustainability.

Environment committee  I'm hoping that the committee will call me to speak to that act specifically, because right now I'm here to tell you about our fall reports.

Environment committee  There's all kinds of information about the funding that was available for adaptation. Between 2011 and 2017, about a six-year period, there was $540 million for climate change adaptation. It's been stated that from 2016 to 2018, $11.7 billion will go toward green infrastructure,

Environment committee  I didn't audit whether or not the 2011 to 2017 monies were spent.

Environment committee  That is correct. There was a policy framework established in 2011. Environment Canada held one workshop in 2013. They didn't do much more after that. They in fact didn't even do their own risk assessment for impacts to climate change in that period or since that time.

Environment committee  No. Five departments did complete risk assessments. They include Natural Resources Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Aboriginal and Northern Affairs, Health Canada, and one more. I always miss one—

Environment committee  Fourteen did not. Five did. Many of them went further than just identifying the risks and actually developed tools and processes and did scientific studies. They raised ports. I mean, there was action spent to adapt by those five departments. What's more disconcerting is that 14

Environment committee  That's quite a broad question. Over the past five years, we've been looking at whether or not departments have been implementing the cabinet directive to review environmental impacts of all policies, programs, and projects that are put forward to ministers and to cabinet. The ca

Environment committee  What I can say is that absolutely we found that Environment Canada had improved its reporting of projected greenhouse gas emissions in all the ways that you've already mentioned. The one area where we thought they could improve was to try to separately indicate the impact of fed