Environment committee  Would you clarify your question, please?

Environment committee  I don't think I can really answer that question. We have tools at the office, of course. Ultimately, there's the Auditor General Act, but we can also secure better cooperation with the departments before we invoke it. Let's say it's an ongoing effort in that respect. Generally sp

Natural Resources committee  Good afternoon. Thank you for your question. As we said in our report, the use of standards, particularly ISO 14064 standards, is very useful for this purpose. The goal is to ensure the consistency, reproducibility and additionality of estimated emissions reductions. We recommen

Natural Resources committee  We did not interview companies. However, we talked to department officials. That was the scope of our audit.

Natural Resources committee  We looked at the submissions and analysis that were done by the department. In effect, the submissions are the official statements by the companies, so they are the declarations of what they expect will be achieved by their project.

Natural Resources committee  I know it is backward-looking. We looked at what was done in the past, and in the past, the only thing that the department did was stop the implementation of the fund and assessing submissions. We analyzed the design of the program. We did not assess and monitor the results of

Natural Resources committee  If you read the report, the department somehow was confident that its approach was properly accounting for the emissions reductions, but when we asked them whether they were following these ISO standards that ensure the credibility and replicability of the estimates of expected e