Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question. Initially, during our audit, we visited a few infrastructure projects in Calgary and Edmonton to see the status of completion and the impact this infrastructure would be having on the fluidity and resilience of the transportation system.

Public Accounts committee  Sure. During our audit period, we saw that the department was taking steps to improve the way they monitor the successes of their projects. In exhibit 4.7, there is a list of the core project-level performance indicators that they need to put in place. As we just said, these new indicators were applied to nine projects so far, but of the 116 that are currently under way, another 107 need to be adjusted to take into account these performance indicators.

Fisheries committee  In the course of the implementation of the fishery management policy, there is a step of identifying which stocks to prioritize. There is a requirement to consult with first nations. We found that in that context—in the identification of the 22 that were presented in our report—they were not consulted.

Fisheries committee  These charts are all built the same way. The chart in exhibit 9.4 looks at coverage for dockside monitoring, and the chart for 9.3 looks at at-sea observation for coverage we have. In our report, we present similar charts for both at-sea and dockside monitoring for aspects of both coverage and timeliness.

Fisheries committee  What we asked the department for in the first place were the cases in which they knew the coverage and timeliness requirements were either not established in the first place or not met, and they reported to us the places where, based on their records, they believed that the requirements were met.

Fisheries committee  Exactly, yes.

Fisheries committee  Thank you for your question. In 1999, actually, our office conducted an audit on two specific fish stocks, and as part of that audit, we also identified problems with system integration. We found the same thing in 2016, when we identified a major lack of system integration. Following that, we took a closer look at two aspects of the information systems as part of our audit.

Fisheries committee  That's exactly right. That is one of DFO's challenges. The commissioner mentioned in his opening remarks that some of the findings we made in 2016 were still relevant. That is true for these systems, which represent—

Fisheries committee  That's absolutely correct. In terms of accessing and compiling the data to have a complete picture of the situation, we had a pretty difficult time getting the answers, precisely because the data were scattered all over the place. That comes back to what we were talking about earlier, the lack of system integration.

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the question. Yes, in our audit, we looked at the overall system for managing catch data, and we found that there were parts of a system in place in Newfoundland that were available, but that for fish catch information, largely the systems were still at the inception stage.

Fisheries committee  Sure. Thank you for the question. Basically, the approach we took was this: In the first place, we asked the department if they now have any systematic way of tracking whether the coverage and timeliness requirements of providing the data were met. We found there is no such thing as a systematic way of doing this.

Environment committee  Good afternoon, everyone. This year, we again looked at the departmental actions that individual departments were reporting on in line with the federal development strategy, and assessed the extent of progress based on the reports they provided to Parliament. For various reasons, we found many flaws in the reporting.

Environment committee  All departments and agencies that were subject to this year's report accepted our recommendation to improve reporting. For the following years, we're adopting a bit of a different approach: Instead of just looking at the quality of the reporting, we're going to also look at the actual outcomes with the audit level of assurance.

Environment committee  Currently, under the act, there are 27 departments and agencies that are subject to producing the reporting. This number will increase to nearly 100. Yes, this entails a lot of coordination between departments. The lead coordination is performed by ECCC on these reports.