Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development—2006 11 THE COMMISSIONER’S PERSPECTIVE—2006 Provide sustained leadership Successfully confronting the economic, social, and environmental risks and the opportunities posed by climate change requires unprecedented leadership from the highest levels of government, Parliament, and the public service. [...] Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development—2006 15 THE COMMISSIONER’S PERSPECTIVE—2006 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 Finan [...] 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 [...] Exhibit 1 How the greenhouse effect works The Greenhouse Effect Some energy is Earth’s surface is reflected back heated by the sun and out to space radiates the heat back out towards space Solar energy Greenhouse gases in from the sun the atmosphere trap passes through some of the heat the atmosphere Source: Environment Canada 2006 26 Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable D