Environment committee In the past year our office has issued a new guide for entity relations. The Auditor General had discussions with the Secretary of the Treasury Board and they agreed, with some other deputy ministers and so on, to include in this guide that recommendations from our office be resp
April 21st, 2009Committee meeting
Paul Morse
Environment committee I just want to find the paragraph, but I believe that when we looked at it there had been about $13 million spent on it so far from the federal side.
April 21st, 2009Committee meeting
Paul Morse
Environment committee Yes, that's going forward.
April 21st, 2009Committee meeting
Paul Morse
Environment committee Thanks for the question. Our report doesn't break it down that way. When we looked at it, we said that overall there was satisfactory progress. As Mr. Vaughan was saying, there was quite a bit of scientific work that had to be done to look at the old method of measurement that w
April 21st, 2009Committee meeting
Paul Morse
Environment committee Thank you. In our report, we don't name all the groups. I guess I'd have to get a list. There were some municipalities and obviously the nine provinces and the territories. Originally Alberta was part of it but dropped out. So it was originally ten and then nine provinces, and
April 21st, 2009Committee meeting
Paul Morse
Environment committee The question regarding cities with 100,000 inhabitants concerns the air quality health index. In the chapter on water, I don't think we mention cities with 100,000 inhabitants. In that chapter, we follow up on our 2005 recommendations regarding federal commitments. The immediate
April 21st, 2009Committee meeting
Paul Morse
Citizenship and Immigration committee However, it is always Canadians who make the final decision, except in very rare cases where local designated staff have that responsibility.
June 5th, 2006Committee meeting
Paul Morse
Citizenship and Immigration committee We audited this in 2003. All files go through a Canadian Immigration officer.
June 5th, 2006Committee meeting
Paul Morse
Citizenship and Immigration committee We did see quite a bit of improvement there in the system called CAIPS. In 2000, a lot of the missions abroad were not really hooked up to it properly. There was no interface with the basic data system called FOSS, and a lot of the people weren't very well trained on it. By 200
June 5th, 2006Committee meeting
Paul Morse