Environment committee  At times during our audit work, when we speak with departmental officials and try to identify what is standing in the way of their progress, if resourcing is presented as a reason and we find the audit evidence necessary to support that conclusion, we will mention in our audit wo

Environment committee  Yes, we do. I would say that it was one of the outstanding successes of my predecessor, Ms. Gelfand. She issued a collaborative report on climate change that presented the audit findings of nearly all of the provincial auditors general, along with the findings that we presented

Environment committee  Absolutely.

Environment committee  From my perspective, I actually can't make that statement without knowing what the government means by—

Environment committee  —inefficient. There's work to be done on the front end of that.

Environment committee  No. To flesh that out a bit, we audit what the government commits to. With the G20 commitment that we're talking about there, the government was supposed to define what inefficient means in the context of Canada's national circumstances. That's a matter purely for the government.

Environment committee  We do expect the government to put in place the mechanisms to measure, monitor and report. We do make recommendations. However, we're careful not to cross into the policy realm because when we do get close to suggesting policy, it can have an impact on the perceptions of our inde

Environment committee  In our 2017 reports we talked about the work the government was doing with the pan-Canadian framework as a foundation piece. The consultation started the ball rolling. Those were our most recent audits directly on climate change. We talked about the gap between the 2020 and 2030

Environment committee  The issue we took with the progress report was that they made the statement you have quoted that they were on track. The information in the progress report and the other information we were able to see did not support that statement. We haven't audited their progress since that

Environment committee  Climate change, as I mentioned, will be a topic we will come back to.

Environment committee  That is a really likely subject for our future audits. I can't say yet because we haven't settled on our forward audit plan past 2021 right now.

Environment committee  We haven't looked at that yet, and I'm not sure if that is one of the audits that is going to be.... It won't be before 2021. As an office we are also looking at producing a new web-based product that will show progress, where we can, on work that has been done by departments. T

Environment committee  We did an audit in 2017. We were looking at fossil fuel subsidies vis-à-vis the commitment that the government had made to phase out or rationalize those subsidies by 2025. Our concern was that, when we went in there, the government had not settled on a definition of what was an

Environment committee  Thank you for the question. Recommendations from previous reports play an important role in the selection of our performance audits. Some examples of recommendations, in the work of the former commissioner and in our current work, have been addressed. For example, recommendation

Environment committee  We use the sustainable development goals, or SDGs, to determine which audits the Auditor General and I will conduct. Not every audit is necessarily related to the SDGs, but many audits are related to them. SDG 16 concerns responsible government. This is part of our financial aud