cover image: 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

Premium

20.500.12592/cgbb6s

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

22 May 2014

Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development—Fall 2013 Chapter 8 25 MAIN POINTS—CHAPTERS 1 TO 8 • In accordance with our legal obligation to monitor and report annually on the extent to which departments and agencies have met the objectives and implemented the plans set out in their own sustainable development strategies, and the extent to which they have contributed t [...] Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development—Fall 2013 Chapter 8 27 Appendix APPENDIX Appendix Auditor General Act—Excerpts An Act respecting the office of the Auditor General of Canada and sustainable development monitoring and reporting INTERPRETATION Definitions 2. In this Act, “appropriate “appropriate Minister” has the meaning assigned by section 2 of the Financia [...] 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 [...] Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development—Fall 2013 33 APPENDIX Commissioner’s (2) The Commissioner shall, on behalf of the Auditor General, report annually to report Parliament concerning anything that the Commissioner considers should be brought to the attention of Parliament in relation to environmental and other aspects of sustainable development, including (a)
economic development sustainable development agriculture environment politics wetlands restoration environmental protection conservation biodiversity water environmental policy natural resources resources biological diversity ecology environmental auditing national parks protected areas parks ecosystem ecosystem services nature strategies convention on biological diversity conservation biology environment and climate change canada environmental science environmental social science national parks of canada

Authors

Maxwell, Neil

ISBN
9781100226590
Pages
42
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario

Related Topics

All