Key actions include: optimising the use of available measures under the reformed CAP, notably to prevent intensification or abandonment of high–nature–value farmland, woodland and forest and supporting their restoration; implementing the forthcoming Forest Action Plan including measures to prevent and combat forest fires; optimising the use of available measures under the reformed CFP, notably to restore fish stocks, reduce impacts on non–target species and reduce damages to marine habitats; and advancing implementation of key environmental framework directives and thematic strategies which reduce pressures on biodiversity, notably by impr ...[+++]oving the quality of freshwater, of the marine environment and of soils, and by reducing diffuse pollutant pressures (e.g. airborne acidifying and eutrophicating substances, nitrates from farm sources, pesticides).

Back in 1978, the Auditor General of Canada, MacDonnell at the time, got a value-for-money audit act, but Parliament did not at the same time amend the Financial Administration Act to require the executive government to account publicly for the quality of management control and value for money in government operations.

First, with respect to clean fuels, appropriate fuel quality is absolutely critical to optimize remission reductions from vehicles and to improve air quality.

Going forward, I believe the greatest opportunities for the innovation fund, our funding partners, and projects are in these areas: innovation to further reduce energy costs; research into improved feed formulation for water quality and conversion rates; optimization of water quality; increased reuse of water and the maximization of production density; taking advantage of the value of the waste streams, for example through aquaponics; and supporting commercialization through mechanisms such as branding and market access programs.

This will involve making important improvements in four key areas: enhancing the quality of information that departments provide to support cabinet and government decisions; reviewing existing programs on an ongoing basis so that ministers have the performance information they need to make sound decisions; ensuring that departments focus their management effort very explicitly on the need to achieve and demonstrate value for money; and finally, better reporting to Parliament and Canadians where we spend taxpayers' money, what we achieve with it, and wh ...[+++]ether they're getting good value for money, so the government can be held to account.

But in paragraph 4 of the report, the fourth sentence, on the line that begins “quality management framework”, the next sentence is: “The report also identified certain opportunities to improve the quality of the Office's value-for-money policies and practices”.