Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll start of by saying that in terms of going forward, we as auditors tend to look backwards. We can talk about what actually happened from things that didn't go well that could be improved. When we talk about measuring well-being—the Community Well-Being Index—we recognize th

Public Accounts committee  That's right, and then in one year we looked at how the results were being reported. They reported that all of the thousand were going to university when in fact the thousand was how many people received the funding.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, this issue shows up in two places in our report. The first place is when we use it as an example to show data that is available within the department. Keep in mind this is data we've received when we mined the department's education system, and how it could have been u

Health committee  At the time we did the report, we travelled to northern Manitoba and northern Ontario, and there are non-indigenous communities that are not that far from the indigenous communities. The objective of the program is to provide comparable services in a similar geographical area. Th

Health committee  Thank you. The report we're referring to was tabled in the spring of 2015. It focused basically on remote first nation communities. We focused in on Manitoba and northern Ontario, which account for about 65% of all the remote first nations in Canada that are on reserve. The iss

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. I'll try to be brief. On the specific topic of negotiations, covered in paragraphs 6.39 through 6.44, again, that's an area that was considered a barrier, the way they conducted negotiations specifically for small claims. They imposed some unilateral changes as part o

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Actually, that's a good example that would link to the impediments that the Auditor General spoke about. We looked at the access to health services in remote first nation communities. As the committee may know, the nursing stations are the first point of contact for health servic

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  As the Auditor General mentioned in his opening statement, in order to make movement in a lot of these files, there has to be the will and coordination among all three players. For example, the policing program is funded 52% by the federal government and 48% by the provinces, a

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  As the Auditor General indicated, this is one of the issues that was problematic for the communities that were under the policing agreements. Most of them were one-year agreements, and it made it difficult for them to plan if they didn't know when the agreement was going to be re

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you for that. Although, as the Auditor General said, we didn't look at that specifically as a separate audit objective, we did look at the services available within the Canadian Forces if someone becomes ill or injured. We spent quite a bit of time explaining that process.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you for that. In 2012, in the chapter when we looked at the transition, we also looked at the governance process between the two departments to ensure that information about benefits and programs is coordinated, harmonized, and shared. As mentioned in paragraph 4.69 of th

Veterans Affairs committee  As was mentioned, it's very important that the information is shared in a timely manner but that it's also accurate and reliable. Back in 2012, most of the records that were being transferred were being done manually. They had an initiative to work on electronic data transfer, I

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and perhaps I can clarify. The Auditor General is right. We asked for evidence to show us that these buildings were indeed built according to code. The department uses these certificates of substantial completion. They were able to show us the certificates

Public Accounts committee  Yes.