Natural Resources committee  I'm going to pass that to John. He was the lead auditor and saw this stuff.

Natural Resources committee  I think our best advice is highlighted in the recommendations. John mentioned the concept of professional judgment. The culture of relying on professional judgment is.... Obviously we do have to rely on professional judgment. At the same time, we also have to have things clear so

Natural Resources committee  Okay. Can I think about it? I have not yet appeared before the Standing Committee on Public Accounts. I would like to talk to the auditor general and ask his opinion. That would be my first appearance before that committee. I would be very pleased to have the opportunity because

Natural Resources committee  I will get back to you with an answer on that.

Natural Resources committee  You have a minute.

Fisheries committee  Thank you so much, Mr. Chair. I am thrilled to be here today. As commissioner of the environment and sustainable development, I report directly to the environment and sustainable development committee of Parliament, yet sustainable development is much broader than just the envir

Fisheries committee  We've put that in our report.

Fisheries committee  We were just telling our dear colleague that the next audit we're going to be doing will be looking at aquaculture. We have not done one that I know of, at least not in the last 10 years, but it's on its way.

Fisheries committee  Here in this audit we were looking at how the department was managing its framework and how it was going to sustainably manage all of the fisheries. We were looking at its methodology, all of the different parts of its programs such as the integrated fish management plans, its sc

Fisheries committee  We did not look at the impact of the new Fisheries Act on the management of the fish stocks in this audit. One thing we did notice though was that the reductions in funding that DFO had were probably the reason why, as Mr. Stringer mentioned, they focused on the most important co

Fisheries committee  It is the federal department. I am the federal commissioner of the environment and sustainable development. I do not audit. I work in the Office of the Auditor General of Canada. That's the supreme audit institution that audits federal departments. It is not within my mandate to

Fisheries committee  We have limited resources in terms of how we develop our audits. Audits can be this big, and they can be this big. Depending on the size of the team, you have to make a decision. In our section called “Focus of the audit”, we indicate clearly in 2.8 what the focus of the audit i

Fisheries committee  I think it's next spring. What are we now? It's February 2017, so it would be the spring of 2018, probably March, April, May.

Fisheries committee  It was the most disconcerting finding, from my perspective, given why I started the audit. I started the audit because I wanted to make sure that we weren't headed towards another collapse. I wouldn't want that to happen. When I read the team's findings, I saw this bit about 12 s

Fisheries committee  I just wanted to make a suggestion. The public accounts committee that the Auditor General reports to when he does his audits requests that the department provide an action plan in writing on a six-month or annual basis. It would be within your jurisdiction, and it's almost your