Environment committee  Personally, I conducted an audit.

Environment committee  The audit we conducted was intended to determine whether or not Canada was going to fulfill the commitment it made at the G20, which it has repeated annually and which is still current. At the moment, I cannot assure you that the commitment will be met.

Environment committee  The Minister of Finance has responsibility for the tax aspects, while Environment and Climate Change Canada has responsibility for the non-tax aspects. Those two responsibilities are very different from each other.

Environment committee  I can make no comment on that.

Environment committee  It was the morning when the Auditor General tabled, which was May 16.

Environment committee  That is our hope. That is the reason we sent a letter to the deputy minister of finance on Friday, to request that information.

Environment committee  Without actually having access to the information that the Department of Finance has, the analysis is really difficult for me to tell you that. That would be a great question to ask the Department of Finance.

Environment committee  Unfortunately, my mandate only pertains to the federal government. I cannot answer that question. It would have to go to the provincial legislatures.

Environment committee  All I can audit is the federal government's role in that.

Environment committee  You know what, I really can't tell you that. The Department of Finance might be able to tell you that, but I can't tell you that.

Environment committee  At this point all I looked at is what I'm allowed to look at, which is the federal government. I can't access that information, other than what's in the public domain. My audit is an audit of the federal government achieving its commitment.

Environment committee  I'm not struggling with the definition. Each government is supposed to define it in their own context. There's a G20 definition that talks about inefficient subsidies as being things that reduce energy security, waste fossil fuels, and that kind of thing. There is already a G20 d

Environment committee  Right now we're using the G20 one. We've asked the government for their definition, and they have not provided us one yet.

Environment committee  We made a recommendation that they do exactly that.

Environment committee  And it's hard for them to do a complete analysis that meets our criteria, if we don't even have a definition. They don't have a definition.