Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development : Rapport du commissaire à l'environnement et au développement durable : le point de vue du commissaire, points saillants

In particular, we will be assessing the fairness of the information contained in the next progress report on the Federal Sustainable Development Strategy 2010–2013, as well as providing feedback to the Minister of the Environment on the government’s next draft of the Federal Sustainable Development Strategy. [...] Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development—Fall 2012 5 THE COMMISSIONER’S PERSPECTIVE We also noted that the recent Jobs, Growth and Long-term Prosperity Act included key changes to the Fisheries Act and the government’s Policy for the Management of Fish Habitat (Fish Habitat Policy). [...] Last year, we pointed to weaknesses in the capacity of the federal government to identify the cumulative Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development—Fall 2012 7 THE COMMISSIONER’S PERSPECTIVE effects of large-scale oil sands projects and to enforce compliance with the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999. [...] 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. [...] Minister to (3) The Minister shall consider the petition and send to the person who made it respond a reply that responds to it, and shall send a copy of the reply to the Auditor General, within (a) one hundred and twenty days after the day on which the Minister receives the petition from the Auditor General; or (b) any longer time, where the Minister personally, within those one hundred and twent