Environment committee  Environment and Climate Change Canada has a plan to go to all the different ministries to find out all the non-tax measures. We should soon have a compilation of them. We could audit that information and provide you with the results.

Environment committee  Right. What we have is the information from the Department of Finance. We don't actually have the analysis that proves that they looked at the environmental, social, and economic aspects, because they refuse to provide us with that information.

Environment committee  No, not at this time.

Environment committee  Well, I could always do an audit on the price of carbon in the future. So I could give you that information if we decided to do an audit on the matter. Certainly, all your questions would go to the Department of Finance.

Environment committee  I can tell you that this committee passed a motion asking departments to come back one year after my reports are submitted to evaluate the progress that has been made. Here is how the process operates: I examine the commitments made by the government and I tell you whether or not

Environment committee  That said, it is really up to you to do the follow-up. I would encourage the Standing Committee on Public Accounts along those lines. I believe that the committee has already passed a motion to that effect.

Environment committee  No, I cannot, because no study comparing us to other countries has been done.

Environment committee  Absolutely. If you go to page 9 of our report you'll see the whole list of those that are no longer in existence, including ones that were done under the Conservative government. There's still one that remains and that's the one on flow-through shares for exploration and developm

Environment committee  What we said in our audit was that the government actually didn't define these things. This is part of the reason why I can't tell you if there's a lot of work to be done: because they haven't made these definitions. What does “poor” mean in the Canadian context? If we reduce an

Environment committee  It's up to each country to define it in their own context.

Environment committee  It's in our audit, it's true.

Environment committee  It's a tax credit.

Environment committee  Wow!

Environment committee  I agree. It is exactly for that reason that the Auditor General took this audit seriously. We really did not get the information that would allow us to give you the assurance that we are supposed to be able to give you. That's what my job requires of me: to do the work and tell y

Environment committee  At this point we're looking at the four audits I mentioned. That doesn't stop me in the future from looking at something like that. I can audit against government commitments. If the government has said it will do x, I can audit against x. I cannot audit against my own idea of wh