Environment committee  I don't think the department is necessarily the one responsible to track those things. I would like them to track the indicators on the environment, which is their core responsibility, but they're aware and take it into consideration, of course. The rest of the departments do that too, on any measures we're taking, and the impacts on the rest of the population.

Environment committee  We don't have impacts, necessarily, on what happens with food banks. We have the Bank of Canada, which said that the impact of the carbon pricing on inflation was actually very, very small. Inflation is due to other factors that actually are way more significant than the carbon pricing.

Environment committee  We do work with other departments. The numbers the minister showed previously, for example, were from Finance. We work with Finance. We work with ESDC. We work with other departments. They analyze the impacts of all measures. When we go to cabinet, this information circulates among departments, and everybody has a chance to get in and talk about the impacts.

Environment committee  We have departments that are really science-based departments. Environment is one of them. There are committees among the departments that are really important and significant from a science perspective. We of course share a common agenda. Our scientists work together. We try to encourage them more and more to do that, even sometimes in sharing the same labs in the same place so that the ideas can come together and we can avoid duplication.

Public Accounts committee  I'll make a start and then give the floor to my friends from Natural Resources Canada, who are handling framework review management. To begin with, calculations pertaining to forests and their contribution in greenhouse gas emissions are complex. We acknowledge that. It's much more complicated to report on forests than on emissions from other sources.

Public Accounts committee  On the goal with the trees, it would probably be better for NRCan to respond, to be honest.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'd like to begin by acknowledging that we are gathered today on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe people, whom we acknowledge as custodians of the lands and waters of this region since time immemorial. My colleagues and I are really happy to meet with the committee to discuss the commissioner's audit recommendations in relation to “Report 1—Forests and Climate Change”.