AUDITOR GENERAL’S Report – Spring 2015
“We are concerned that the issues we are seeing today may be the symptoms of bigger problems in the future if they are not addressed quickly," Ferguson said in a statement.
- The quality of health care in remote First Nations communities
- Individuals in remote communities in Manitoba and Ontario can't access sufficient clinical and client care services and medical transportation.
- Only one out of 45 nurses had completed mandatory Health Canada training to allow them to perform advanced duties such as immunization, cardiac life support and handling controlled substances; a problem the federal department identified in 2010.
- Some aboriginals were not properly registered for the transport benefit
- Lacklustre efforts to rehabilitate prisoners
- The safety of the public is better served by a system that can offer rehabilitation before an inmate is set free (that service is often not available)
- One in five offenders had parole hearings when they were first eligible,
- Some 80 per cent of offenders were behind bars beyond their first parole eligibility date
- 54 per cent walked out of federal prisons at their statutory release date rather than being on parole earlier in their sentence.
- “This is important because the more time offenders have to gradually reintegrate into the community . . . the more likely they are to reintegrate successfully,"
- Lower risk offenders are being released from prison later in their sentences and with less time supervised in the community because…
- Correctional Service Canada recommends early release less often
- More offenders are being released directly from medium- and high security penitentiaries (no step down to less secure facilities)
- The dearth of oversight governing boutique tax credits
- The first-time home buyers’ tax credit, the children’s fitness tax credit, a textbook tax credit and a search and rescue volunteers tax credit - not properly evaluated or subject to adequate oversight by Parliament
- Did not provide proper evaluations of tax expenditures the way it does when it evaluates actual program spending.
- Parliament requires complete information on tax-based expenditures to exercise adequate oversight
- Lacks a national strategy to deal with the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance
- The emergence and spread of drug-resistant infections, or “superbugs," due to the misuse of powerful antimicrobial drugs
- National Defence… [failed] to keep a closer eye on its former watchdog, who
- Extended consultant contracts without proper authorization and
- Approved his own hospitality expense claims
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