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Environment committee Not yet. These are all great questions that you could ask the department.
June 14th, 2017Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand
Environment committee I'm not the department.
June 14th, 2017Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand
June 14th, 2017Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand
Environment committee As I mentioned, there are two types of measures. There are the tax measures that Finance is responsible for, and then all of the non-tax measures. Environment and Climate Change Canada has developed a plan with timelines as to when they will get that information. They've indicat
June 14th, 2017Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand
Environment committee If you go to page 9 of our report, they're quite technical. There's a whole list of them. You'll see all the different tax measures and when the budget was..... There is, “Expenses of oil sands and oil shale leases and property, previously treated as Canadian development expense
June 14th, 2017Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand
Environment committee Well, of the ones you see here, five were done up until 2013. For 2015, I'm not sure of the exact date. Up until 2015, there are six, according to our report. Remember, again, that we aren't convinced that Finance Canada has done a good survey of the entire population in order
June 14th, 2017Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand
Environment committee Yes, it is—
June 14th, 2017Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand
Environment committee Yes, we've actually put a “projected impact on budgetary balance” in the table.
June 14th, 2017Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand
Environment committee I don't think we added them up.
June 14th, 2017Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand
Environment committee Unfortunately, in the role that I play, my job is to audit what the government has said it will do. If a government makes a commitment to reduce inefficient fossil fuel subsidies, my job is to go in and let you know whether or not they're getting it done. Your question is really
June 14th, 2017Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand
Environment committee Another audit I will be tabling in the fall will be about funding new green energy sources, so I'll be able to give you more information on that this fall. Here we looked specifically at whether or not they had defined what an inefficient fossil fuel subsidy was and whether or no
June 14th, 2017Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand
Environment committee The commitment the government made was on fossil fuel subsidies.
June 14th, 2017Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand
Environment committee To be perfectly precise, the Department of Finance redacted that information. We also found it surprising. The Auditor General himself found it surprising, something as simple as the strategic environmental assessment, which we have been auditing for five or six years. We've bee
June 14th, 2017Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand
Environment committee In this audit we looked at the straight tax measures and the non-tax measures, which were, as I said earlier, loan guarantees, better interest rates, and research and development. The issue of regulation that you're talking about, we are looking at right now, and we will be tabl
June 14th, 2017Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand
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
June 14th, 2017Committee meeting
Julie Gelfand