Environment committee  Yes, we are. What I can do is describe a little bit of the process that is used for building codes. There's a very structured and consensus-based process that exists. The National Research Council is actually the secretariat for that. It supports a number of technical committee

Environment committee  Sure. Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here on behalf of the Department of Natural Resources. Frank DesRosiers will join us shortly. He apparently is held up in traffic, so I will present the deck. Some of this is in Frank's area more than mine, but I'm happy to at le

Finance committee  Sure. There is a very robust process of pre-consultation that we would do with our stakeholders and with provinces and territories anyway. We have very effective relationships. We talk to our stakeholders and we consult Canadians and the provinces and territories when we're makin

Finance committee  Thank you for your question. That's not the intention. The intention is to just update the act. This part of the act, section 26 of the Energy Efficiency Act, was put in place before the regulatory process that's now directed through a cabinet directive through Treasury Board,

Finance committee  The cabinet directive is a directive that's published through the cabinet and implemented by the Treasury Board and the Treasury Board Secretariat.

Finance committee  It's not a statutory requirement, but it does govern how departments operate when they're doing changes to regulations, and it is public.

Finance committee  Effectively, yes. What I would say is that the cabinet directive is a long-standing directive. It's been in place for a number of years, and it's what governs departments in all the regulations that they do. My understanding is that there aren't that many pieces of legislation

Finance committee  It would have to be through a cabinet process, which I think would be led by Treasury Board. There's a process that occurs, and then the directive is a public document.