Office of the Auditor General of Canada

Our objective for this audit was to determine whether the systems and practices we selected for examination at the Public Sector Pension Investment Board were providing the corporation with reasonable assurance that its assets were safeguarded and controlled, its resources were managed...

Our objective for this audit was to determine whether the systems and practices we selected for examination at the Canadian Dairy Commission were providing the corporation with reasonable assurance that its assets were safeguarded and controlled, its resources were managed economically and...

This report is not an audit report. Instead, it highlights the results of the financial audits we—the Office of the Auditor General of Canada—conducted in federal organizations for fiscal years ended between July 2020 and April 2021. (We refer to these as the 2020–2021 financial audits.) This...

Briefing Package for the hearing on the briefing of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development before the Standing Committee on Environement and Sustainable Development on 1 February 2022.

This audit focused on whether the Public Health Agency of Canada improved its administration of mandatory quarantine orders to limit the introduction of the virus that causes COVID‑19 and the virus variants into Canada from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021, the period beginning after the conclusion of...

This audit focused on whether selected federal organizations protected Canada’s food system during the COVID‑19 pandemic by effectively designing, delivering, and managing programming to help reduce food insecurity in Canada through the Emergency Food Security Fund, the Surplus Food Rescue...

This audit focused on whether Employment and Social Development Canada managed the Temporary Foreign Worker Program to protect agricultural workers from COVID‑19 in 2020 and 2021. We focused particularly on the amended Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations and the department’s...

This audit focused on whether selected regional development agencies and the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario (under Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) designed, delivered, and managed the Regional Relief and Recovery Fund program effectively and...

This audit focused on whether Environment and Climate Change Canada and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada took a coordinated and risk-based approach to reduce the impact of excess nutrients on ecosystem health in selected Canadian water basins. Our audit examined 3 water basins: Lake Erie, Lake...

This audit focused on whether Natural Resources Canada designed the Onshore Program of the Emissions Reduction Fund to ensure that the anticipated reductions of greenhouse gas emissions in the oil and gas sector after 2023 would be credible and sustainable. The report also examined whether the...

This report, which is not an audit, provides a historical perspective on Canada’s action to address climate change mitigation and adaptation in order to inform parliamentarians. Parliamentarians are instrumental in ensuring that Canada transitions to a low-emission economy and ultimately must...

This review focused on whether federal departments and agencies contributed to meeting the 2016–2019 Federal Sustainable Development Strategy’s goals of healthy coasts and oceans, pristine lakes and rivers, and sustainable food, as applicable to each organization.

The purpose of this annual report is to inform Parliament and Canadians about the number, nature, and status of environmental petitions and responses received from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021, as required by section 23 of the Auditor General Act.

The report, which is tabled under section 20 of the Service Fees Act and subsection 4.2.8 of the Directive on Charging and Special Financial Authorities, contains information about the fees that the OAG had the authority to set in the 2020–21 fiscal year.

Briefing Package for the hearing on Report 9—Investing in Canada Plan, of the 2021 Reports of the Auditor General of Canada, of the 2021 Reports of the Auditor General of Canada before the Standing Committee on Public Accounts -11 May 2021

Briefing Package for the hearing on Government’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic before the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates – 26 April 2021

Briefing Package for the hearing on Follow-up Audit on Rail Safety before the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities – 13 April 2021

Briefing Package for the hearing on Government’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic before the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates on 7 June 2021

Briefing Package for the hearing on Report 1—Procuring Complex Information Technology Solutions, of the 2021 Reports of the Auditor General of Canada before the Standing Committee on Public Accounts - 27 May 2021

Package for the hearing on Report 2—National Shipbuilding Strategy, of the 2021 Reports of the Auditor General of Canada before the Standing Committee on Public Accounts on 25 May 2021