In answering that question, I'll take us back to my first appearance before this committee a couple of years ago.
In the lessons learned on climate change report from our office in 2021, lesson one is, “Stronger leadership and coordination are needed to drive progress toward climate commitments”.
We've had a fragmented approach for 30 years now in Canada, without good results. Our emissions are considerably higher now than when we started this endeavour. Continuing to do the same thing but expecting different results is not a good approach.
Somewhat inadvertently, some of the responses you've heard from the departments today have reinforced our point that continued siloed approaches do not work. At least, that's been the experience on climate, and perhaps on biodiversity as well, in Canada. Stronger leadership and coordination...that's the reason we made it lesson number one in that report from 2021.
We've yet to see that tangibly occurring in Canada with respect to climate change. There's still a fragmented approach. It's a “not my department”, siloed approach.