Environment committee  Thank you, deputy. For supplementary estimates (C), what we're requesting in the vote is really to look at revamping our technology. We're going to be looking at developing a forensic lab that will provide us with even more modernization when it comes to investigation. We're als

Environment committee  I'm truly sorry. It's an occupational hazard.

Environment committee  I'll ask Mr. Walker to elaborate on the enforcement of the act and the terms and conditions of the tools we have available to us. It's important to understand that it's a matter of diversity. For the offences we have to deal with, we need all of these tools. It's not necessarily

Environment committee  There are two things. We will answer your question, absolutely, but also, in an effort to clarify our process—if the committee chooses to do so—we can walk you through an investigative process until we turn the report over to the prosecutor, if this could help the committee bette

Environment committee  I can start the conversation. The environmental fund from the Volkswagen fine, for example, is going towards climate change impacts. With any fund, there is a set of criteria. I do not have them on hand, but they are publicly available. Provinces, private companies and intereste

Environment committee  I have a correction. Heather McCready was the director general for environmental enforcement. She was replaced by Donald Walker.

Environment committee  I am not in a position to determine the resources of the Public Prosecution Service. That is not in our purview. It's something it will have to answer.

Environment committee  It's a continuum. Absolutely, we need good public prosecution.

Environment committee  No, you do not have the full view. You are viewing the enforcement portion.

Environment committee  When it comes to the CEPA mandate, the departmental mandate for enforcement, you do have the proper team available to you today to discuss enforcement under the Environment and Climate Change Canada mandate.

Environment committee  I can only speak to the mandate of Environment and Climate Change Canada today.

Environment committee  Thank you. In the current situation, do we have the proper tools? I believe we do have the proper tools. The court cases actually show that we do have the proper tools and we're bringing the regulatees back into compliance through the diversity of tools that the enforcement offi

Environment committee  We do have a group within the department that actually asks who is responsible for certain files, and we are the current staff on hand for these files.

Environment committee  No, we have not, because the conversation was about the enforceability.

Environment committee  The act needs to be revised, which will allow us to thoroughly study the elements that should be added to it. We'll then be able to take a second look at it.