Evidence of meeting #159 for Government Operations and Estimates in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was audits.
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Liberal
Jenica Atwin Liberal Fredericton, NB
Would that have been during the time when you were contracted to perform eligibility audits?
Liberal
Jenica Atwin Liberal Fredericton, NB
Would that have been during the time frame when you were contracted to perform the eligibility audits?
Liberal
Jenica Atwin Liberal Fredericton, NB
Do you believe an auditor contracted to review applications for the indigenous business directory is well placed to determine whether their own business should be listed?
Senior Compliance Auditor, As an Individual
In 2020 and 2021, we didn't have anything to do with the IBD.
Senior Compliance Auditor, As an Individual
I forget the exact date, but the IBD was formerly run by Industry Canada. Industry Canada registered the businesses. Then they decided they no longer wanted to do that function. They said it was too expensive, so IBD decided to design their own business directory.
In that period of time—
Liberal
Jenica Atwin Liberal Fredericton, NB
The indigenous business directory decided to design its own business directory. Is that what you said?
Senior Compliance Auditor, As an Individual
Yes. Before, the business directory was being run by Industry Canada, which no longer wanted to do it. They gave it back to ISC to design its own.
Liberal
Jenica Atwin Liberal Fredericton, NB
It's ISC. Okay.
While you were doing this work, roughly how many audits did you complete?
Liberal
Jenica Atwin Liberal Fredericton, NB
Do you happen to know what the non-compliance rate would be? Could you share that with us?
Senior Compliance Auditor, As an Individual
It's fairly low. It definitely wouldn't exceed 10%. It may even be lower than that.
Liberal
Jenica Atwin Liberal Fredericton, NB
I'll jump quickly to the Canadian Health Care Agency piece as well.
When were you made aware of concerns around CHCA?
Senior Compliance Auditor, As an Individual
I was tasked with doing the audit and the post-award audit on them.
Liberal
Senior Compliance Auditor, As an Individual
It was probably a month or two. We had difficulty with the company because they wouldn't supply the information. They kept asking for deferrals to have the audit completed.
I don't have the exact date, and I was looking for it. I don't have the date in my report, either. It was sometime during 2017.
Liberal
Jenica Atwin Liberal Fredericton, NB
Okay.
As an auditor, what do you look for when verifying indigenous identity? Is that something that you look into?
Senior Compliance Auditor, As an Individual
I don't know if you got a copy of.... I'll just briefly go over that, if you give me time to do this.
Liberal
Jenica Atwin Liberal Fredericton, NB
I have about 45 seconds, so maybe I'll just end with this one.
Can I just ask—