Environment committee  Since this is a bill, I can't say much about it. I've read the bill. It's more about the structural framework of the agency. There aren't a lot of details or objectives. It's really enabling legislation. We'll see what the agency does. That said, we must focus on coordination, c

Environment committee  Generally speaking, I often ask this question: Is the water safe to drink, can you swim in it and can you fish in it? The Great Lakes have to meet those three criteria. So we need targets that will actually improve the state of freshwater.

Environment committee  I'm glad to see that you're keeping an eye on our upcoming reports. We disclose on our website what's coming in the next couple of rounds of reports, including this spring's, which is about agriculture and climate change mitigation. That's the focus of that report, although nut

Environment committee  Yes, as you've heard from me before, there are a few areas in Canada where the data and the measurements are not as reliable as I'd like to see and as I'm sure you'd like to see. This includes methane and a variety of ones relating to land use, land use change and forestry, inclu

Environment committee  As I've said in several other reports, including the “Lessons Learned” report when we talked about oil and gas, or even the mining effluent report that I just mentioned earlier.... We often preface our reports with both the positive economic impacts associated with an industry—as

Environment committee  Mr. Chair, I am pleased to be here today to contribute to the committee's study on the federal government's role in the protection and management of Canada's freshwater resources. I would like to acknowledge that this meeting is taking place on the traditional unceded territory

Public Accounts committee  I share your disappointment about Canada's track record on climate change. There's no doubt about that.

Public Accounts committee  Are we talking about the second half of the report, on forest carbon accounting?

Public Accounts committee  The inconsistencies are illustrated in exhibit 1.8, where we have three lines on the graph showing that depending on the year of the report—2019, 2020 or 2021—the calculation of forest carbon sink or forest carbon source varied for the same year for the same variable. We have sig

Public Accounts committee  It's Natural Resources Canada.

Public Accounts committee  They weren't on track as of the date of our report. They consider themselves to be on track now that they're counting trees from another program.

Public Accounts committee  Well, as I've said before, we said in our report that they're unlikely to meet their target unless significant changes are made. I was not hoping for changes in accounting. I was hoping for changes in the number of agreements and the number of actual incremental trees planted fro

Public Accounts committee  I'm not in the business of giving grades, but I am disappointed that we were not told about that. An important part of the audit process is for us to be told about anything that could affect our findings, including this, which would affect not only exhibit 1.3 but exhibit 1.4 and

Public Accounts committee  This emerged after the tabling of our report. In our report, at paragraphs 1.19 and 1.20, we noted where they were at in their tree-planting success in the first two years. That was reflected in the exhibit on the next page. This is important, especially for this committee, the

Public Accounts committee  Thank you. You're not the only one here who needs to practise French. I need to as well. I'm getting a lot of opportunities to do that now that I'm the commissioner. I also read that newspaper article this morning. It's a new development. I don't know whether the federal governm