The Commissioner’s Perspective

Fall 2018 Reports of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development to the Parliament of Canada The Commissioner’s Perspective Office of the Bureau du Auditor General vérificateur général of Canada du Canada PERSPECTIVE Fall 2018 Reports of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development to the Parliament of Canada The Commissioner’s Perspective Office of the Burea [...] FA1-26/2018-2-0E-PDF ISBN 978-0-660-27646-5 ISSN 2561-1798 (Print) ISSN 2561-1801 (Online) Office of the Bureau du Auditor General vérificateur général of Canada du Canada To the Honourable Speakers of the House of Commons and the Senate: On behalf of the Auditor General of Canada, I have the honour to transmit herewith these fall 2018 reports, which are to be laid before the House and the Senate, [...] Parliament created the position of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development Photo: Olivier Le Moal/Shutterstock.com in 1995 and housed it within the Office of the Auditor General of Canada, to formalize the consideration of sustainable development in the Office’s independent review of the business of government. [...] Indeed, the Auditor General Act mandates the Commissioner to monitor and report on the government’s progress toward sustainable development through reviews of the sustainable development strategies of individual government organizations and of the federal government as a whole. [...] Reports of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development to the Parliament of Canada—Fall 2018 In July 2018, I attended the high-level political forum in New York, during which Canada presented its Voluntary National Review—in essence, a national status report on implementing the 2030 Agenda.