Questions and responses 45th Parliament, 1st session May 26, 2025, to present

With regard to the cuts to Environment and Climate Change Canada in budget 2025: for all documents, including internal scientific analyses, briefing notes, technical guidance, modelling, risk assessments, unpublished or draft documents, successive versions, calculations, technical appendices, modelling tables and any correspondence between senior officials and ministerial offices regarding the impacts of the 15% cut on climate monitoring, modelling, enforcement of environmental laws, scientific capacity, and atmospheric, hydrological and oceanographic monitoring systems, what are the details, including (i) the date, (ii) the sender, (iii) the type of document, (iv) the title of the document, (v) a summary of the contents?

With regard to the 15% cut to Environment and Climate Change Canada's departmental expenditures, for the reduction or elimination of program activities that are not part of its core mandate, as announced in the 2025 budget and broken down by province: (a) which program activities will be reduced; (b) which program activities will be eliminated; (c) for all documentation used to determine which program activities are not part of Environment and Climate Change Canada's core mandate, as well as the evaluation criteria used to define what is and is not a core mandate activity, what are the details, including, (i) the date, (ii) the sender, (iii) the type of document, (iv) the title of the document, (v) a summary of the content of the message; (d) what portion of the 15% cuts will be through job losses and what amount does this correspond to; (e) what portion of the 15% cuts will be through attrition; (f) what will be the reduction in the number of employees at Environment and Climate Change Canada; (g) what portion of the 15% cuts will be achieved through program simplification, and what amount does this correspond to; (h) which programs will be discontinued; (i) which programs will be simplified, and how will they be simplified; (j) for any internal documentation describing the complexity of nature-based programs, what are the details, including (i) the date, (ii) the sender, (iii) the type of document, (iv) the title of the document, (v) a summary of the content of the message; (k) what are the nature-based programs; (l) according to budget 2025, the department will “improve day-to-day operating efficiency by eliminating redundancies,” what are the redundancies in question, and for any documentation informing about the nature of these redundancies and how they were identified, what are the details, including (i) the date, (ii) the sender, (iii) the type of document, (iv) the title of the document, (v) a summary of the content of the message; (m) what portion of the 15% cuts will be achieved by eliminating redundancies and what amount does this correspond to; (n) what will save the Canada Water Agency $0.7 to $1.2 million per year as prescribed in the budget and what will be the impact on water protection; (o) what will enable the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada to save $7.9 to $15.8 million per year, and for any documentation informing the potential impact of these savings on the Agency's assessment timelines and on the quality of the Agency's environmental impact assessments, what are the details, including (i) the date, (ii) the sender, (iii) the type of document, (iv) the title of the document, (v) a summary of the content of the message; and (p) what will be the impacts on achieving the greenhouse gas targets and on achieving the targets of the Kunming-Montreal Agreement of saving Environment and Climate Change Canada $236.8 million to $302.9 million per year?

With regard to the Comprehensive Expenditure Review savings announced in Budget 2025 and the 15% savings target over three years for Health Canada: (a) which Health Canada branches, core responsibilities, programs in the Program Inventory, transfer payment programs, internal services, services, regulatory functions, laboratories, and other activities have been, or are expected to be, impacted by the savings; (b) for each item in (a), what is the nature of the impact, including whether it will be reduced, consolidated, eliminated, transferred, automated, subject to reduced service standards, or otherwise changed; (c) broken down by branch and program, what was the total number of full-time equivalents at Health Canada in the 2024-25 fiscal year; (d) broken down by branch, program and fiscal year, what is the projected reduction in full-time equivalents at Health Canada for 2025-26, 2026-27 and 2027-28; and (e) broken down by branch and program, which Health Canada programs, services or activities are expected to operate with fewer employees as a result of the Comprehensive Expenditure Review?

With regard to the 2% budget reduction to Indigenous Services Canada announced in budget 2025: (a) how many employees have been affected by budget cuts, including layoffs, terminations and positions eliminated; (b) how many of the affected employees who were laid off, terminated or have eliminated positions self-identify as Indigenous; and (c) what is the breakdown of these reductions by (i) region, (ii) branch or sector, (iii) occupational group and classification level?

With regard to the 2% budget reduction to Indigenous Services Canada announced in Budget 2025: (a) how many employees have been affected by budget cuts, including layoffs, terminations and positions eliminated; (b) how many of the affected employees who were laid off, terminated or have eliminated positions self-identify as Indigenous; (c) what is the breakdown of these reductions by (i) region, (ii) branch or sector, (iii) occupational group and classification level; and (d) which programs and services have been cut to achieve the 2% budget reduction?