Environment committee  I don't report to you. I report to you when I've reported, but you can't tell me what to do. I do that independently.

Environment committee  I can't give you an opinion on that, because I don't know. Finance has not convinced us that they've done the proper analysis to understand the entire population.

Environment committee  These are mostly tax measures. We have not looked at the non-tax measures. That's what Environment and Climate Change Canada is doing now. We may encounter more inefficient subsidies that are non-tax measures. We don't know.

Environment committee  There is one new fossil fuel subsidy, which was introduced in 2015 and is supposed to sunset in 2025, and it is related to LNG.

Environment committee  No. It just says 2025.

Environment committee  Again, because we are not convinced and we don't know if the Department of Finance has looked at the entire population, we can't tell you that. We can tell you that these are the ones they've told us have been phased out, but we don't know if they've done a complete analysis, and

Environment committee  That is our understanding. During the course of the audit, they developed a plan with a timeline to find out all the non-tax measures—loan guarantees, research and development—so they are now surveying, or should at some point be surveying, all the ministries to find out what the

Environment committee  I don't know the answer to that question.

Environment committee  It is not an unusual request. We often request all kinds of information. It is unusual to be refused that information.

Environment committee  The department hasn't provided us with the information. That is correct.

Environment committee  The department has done the analysis. They told us they cannot provide it to us because, they claim, it was a cabinet confidence. There's a new order in council, which apparently will provide us with that information. We wrote a letter to them on Friday asking them for that infor

Environment committee  I can't comment.

Environment committee  Our audit planning is already pretty much in place for the next year, but if I'm getting a sense from this committee that this is very important to you, it could be that I can delay or move back one of our future audits and get it in more quickly through the system, rather than w

Environment committee  This was a very disturbing situation. The Auditor General therefore tabled the report, because it was an issue of a refusal to provide information to the Auditor General. It was very serious.

Environment committee  That is a very difficult question to answer.