Status Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development—March 2008 THE COMMISSIONER’S PERSPECTIVE—2008 Status Report of the Commissioner of the Environment What needs to change? [...] We also examined the extent to which the actions taken have achieved the government’s Ecosystems Areas of Concern in the Great Lakes BasinStatus Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development—March 2008 MAIN POINTS—CHAPTERS 1 TO 14 Status Report of the Commissioner of the Environment objectives and led to the restoration of environmental quality of areas of concern. [...] Acknowledgement (2) Within fifteen days after the day on which the Minister receives the petition to be sent from the Auditor General, the Minister shall send to the person who made the petition an acknowledgement of receipt of the petition and shall send a copy of the acknowledgement to the Auditor General. [...] Status Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development—March 2008 37 APPENDICESCommissioner’s (2) The Commissioner shall, on behalf of the Auditor General, report annually to report the House of Commons concerning anything that the Commissioner considers should be brought to the attention of that House in relation to environmental and other aspects of sustainable developm [...] Regulations (5) The Governor in Council may, on the recommendation of the Minister of the Environment, make regulations prescribing the form in which sustainable development strategies are to be prepared and the information required to be contained in them.38 Status Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development—March 2008 APPENDICESSCHEDULE (Section 2) Atlantic Canada O