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Environment committee Thank you. I think, to answer your question, there are opportunities with proposed section 10.1 of the act, which is the directive power that is being given to the Treasury Board. In terms of one of the comments the commissioner made in her opening statement, there might be so
December 5th, 2017Committee meeting
Andrew Hayes
Environment committee I think that, as the commissioner suggested, this might be a question the Treasury Board Secretariat might be best positioned to answer. What we are required to do is evaluate and examine the contributions that the departmental sustainable development strategies will make to the
December 5th, 2017Committee meeting
Andrew Hayes
Environment committee Our powers to access information come from the Auditor General Act. It's a broadly worded access provision. The Auditor General's position is that this statutory provision gives us access to everything we should have for our audit purposes, including cabinet confidences. Traditi
June 14th, 2017Committee meeting
Andrew Hayes
Environment committee We encountered a situation where we were asking for information that wasn't covered by a list that was in previous orders in council.
June 14th, 2017Committee meeting
Andrew Hayes
Environment committee They did have a timeline. The plan that we saw was in draft. At the point where we saw it, it was being approved by the minister at the very end of our examination phase of the audit. At this point in time, I think that's a question best asked of the department.
June 14th, 2017Committee meeting
Andrew Hayes
Environment committee Thank you. The list that we have on pages 9 and 10 reflects the specific subsidies that are not considered to be benchmark tax subsidies. We show that there are six of them that have been phased out, as mentioned in the budget announcement, and it happened between 2011 and 2015.
June 14th, 2017Committee meeting
Andrew Hayes
Environment committee That's right. I was just going to say exactly that, it would be a deduction that they would be allowed.
June 14th, 2017Committee meeting
Andrew Hayes
Environment committee We have been engaged with Finance Canada since last July over information. We've had various discussions throughout the audit. The most recent request, which followed the order in council in May, came in a formal context last Friday. We sent a letter on Friday.
June 14th, 2017Committee meeting
Andrew Hayes
Environment committee Throughout the audit we had both a formal request for information and informal discussions to understand the information that Finance was not able to provide to us. That information was characterized as cabinet confidence. At a relatively early stage in our audit examination, we
June 14th, 2017Committee meeting
Andrew Hayes
Environment committee That's the way the information was characterized in response to us.
June 14th, 2017Committee meeting
Andrew Hayes