Environment committee  That's an important clarification. The focus of this bill is on government accountability to change emissions, increase sequestration and reduce emissions, in other words, to take policy action to change what occurs. Things that occur outside of human influence are not subject to

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  That's correct. It prescribes the detail. Without this, it would be up to the discretion of the minister to decide what information to provide.

Environment committee  I don't think it's redundant. The previous amendment added new progress reports before 2030. Without this amendment, those progress reports would report on progress towards the 2030 target. This amendment clarifies that, among other things, those reports also have to include repo

Environment committee  I thought the discussion was about our ability to report definitively about attainment of the 2026 objective, whereas this amendment is clear that the requirement is to report on progress towards.

Environment committee  What I explained previously, or tried to explain, was not so much that it's different in form from a target, but that a target in this bill comes with various obligations with respect to reporting, etc.

Environment committee  With this amendment, there would be an obligation to report on progress toward the interim objective. At the time that we had the previous discussion, there was no such amendment on the table, so the objective was simply an objective without any reporting obligations. This comm

Environment committee  That's correct; it's not. The bill will be interpreted broadly if a plan does not need to include such a co-operative agreement, but it may include a co-operative agreement. What this says is that, as Mr. Ngan has explained, the assessment report basically asks, once we get to a

Environment committee  You're asking a legal question. I can say, in a general sense, that this does provide some discretion to the minister to determine which co-operative measures are key. I don't think it would allow the minister to ignore measures with some provinces and to privilege others. The fe

Environment committee  That's correct. This in no way infringes on provincial jurisdiction or requires provinces to do anything.

Environment committee  That's correct, but the reference to other governments could be interpreted to include municipalities. We have agreements with municipalities. It can also be interpreted to include agreements with indigenous governments.

Environment committee  I can't comment as to whether that's a good thing or not. That's for you to determine. It's not unusual for this to happen.

Environment committee  The expert body that exists does not.... It is something that the minister has set up. What we're talking about now is what would need to be established under the act.

Environment committee  The minister will have to establish an advisory body. What that body will constitute will be determined after the act is passed.

Environment committee  I'm not sure that there's significant change as a result. It would emphasize the independent nature of the committee, but the committee as described is something that is established under law. Its performance and advice cannot be dictated by the minister, the government or Parlia