Public Accounts committee  Yes, of course. In the second part of our report, we concluded that there was a lack of transparency in estimates of greenhouse gas emissions. The estimates vary from year to year. For example, exhibit 1.8 says that for a given year, various reports mentioned "added emissions to

Public Accounts committee  I don't know their intentions. However, I don't believe that the differing results reported every time they do the calculations is deliberate.

Public Accounts committee  I said "not deliberate".

Public Accounts committee  Yes. Thanks for that clarification. Stakeholders and decision-makers can't, when looking at the data, determine what changes need to be made in forest management. It's impossible, on the basis of the data, to say whether we need much more forest restoration or conservation work.

Public Accounts committee  This program was announced as a federal initiative, but as you know, most Crown land in Canada is managed by the provinces and territories. As I've termed it before in previous appearances before other committees, the federal government was essentially an obligate collaborator wi

Public Accounts committee  Yes. If you look at paragraph 1.22 and exhibit 1.4 together, you see that this is a long-term project. In the first 10 years, there's not going to be any help in sequestering carbon.

Public Accounts committee  We should. Having regard to the issues you're raising with respect to survival rates and permanence, we shouldn't abandon programs just because they don't show returns in the immediate future. Climate change is a long-term problem, and addressing it on the tree-planting side mea

Public Accounts committee  They're off to quite a slow start, and there's a dispute between our office and the departments as to what should count in terms of double counting from another program. However, looking specifically at our report, we noted they were roughly on track in year one, 2021, but fell w

Public Accounts committee  Likely around 2031 or 2032 will be where the graph dips from above zero to below zero and goes from a source to a sink.

Public Accounts committee  We've seen a pattern of problems in our various audits relating to climate change in the last three years with respect to Environment and Climate Change Canada and Natural Resources Canada. Here we see some similarities with problems we identified in our emissions reduction fund

Public Accounts committee  We have a long list of recommendations trying to get at that very thing. We are in the midst of trying to consolidate those recommendations in our next climate report for the fall, which I hope to be back for to speak to as well. Coordination, realistic assumptions and avoiding

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to acknowledge that we are gathered today on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe people. We are happy to be appearing before your committee to discuss our report on forests and climate change, which was tabled in the House of Com

Fisheries committee  Mr. Normand will answer that question.

Fisheries committee  Yes, I agree, for the two reasons I mentioned. First, it would lead to better decisions about the sustainability of fisheries. Second, communities would be more supportive of these decisions if they were reliable and sustainable.

Fisheries committee  In summary, those are the reasons why we made these recommendations in our report. So implementing all our recommendations will improve the situation and the sustainability of fish stocks. That would be the first thing to do. I don't want to come back here in six or seven years a