Office of the Auditor General of Canada

This audit focused on whether key federal organizations built the maritime domain awareness needed to respond to safety and security risks and incidents associated with increasing vessel traffic in Arctic waters. The federal organizations deemed key to the surveillance of Arctic waters and...

This audit focused on whether Indigenous Services Canada provided the emergency management support needed by First Nations communities. We examined the department’s activities related to floods, wildfires, landslides, and severe weather events, because these are the most prevalent types of...

The Office of the Auditor General of Canada (OAG) is required, under section 147 of the Financial Administration Act, to disclose its costs incurred in preparing annual audit and special examination reports on Crown corporations. The costs stated for joint audits include only the costs incurred...

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

Our objective for this audit was to determine whether the systems and practices we selected for examination at The Jacques‑Cartier and Champlain Bridges Inc. 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 Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority were providing it with reasonable assurance that its assets were safeguarded and controlled, its resources were managed economically and efficiently,...

This report highlights the results of the financial audits we—the Office of the Auditor General of Canada—conducted in federal organizations for the fiscal years ended between 31 July 2021 and 30 April 2022. (We refer to these as the 2021–2022 financial audits.) This report provides a commentary...

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 2021–22 fiscal year.

This backgrounder provides general information on Canada’s commitments to protect biodiversity. It also addresses species at risk status and trends. It provides a background to the performance audit reports on specific biodiversity topics that the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable...

This audit focused on whether Natural Resources Canada, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, and Atomic Energy of Canada Limited adequately managed low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste.

This audit focused on whether Fisheries and Oceans Canada, in collaboration with others, protected selected aquatic species assessed as at risk.

This review of the 2021 Progress Report on the 2019 to 2022 Federal Sustainable Development Strategy includes an assessment of the fairness of the information used to track progress against targets, contextual indicators, short-term milestones, and key priorities that are contained in the...

This audit assessed the contribution of Environment and Climate Change Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and Parks Canada to meeting the target of species at risk under the Healthy Wildlife Populations goal in the 2019 to 2022 Federal Sustainable Development Strategy, and the related United...

This annual report on petitions informs Parliament and Canadians about the number, nature, and status of environmental petitions and the government’s responses received between 1 July 2021 and 30 June 2022.

This audit focused on whether the Privy Council Office, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, and Women and Gender Equality Canada advanced the implementation of gender‑based analysis plus (GBA Plus) in government, in response to selected recommendations from the 2015 Fall Reports of the...

Briefing Package for the Public Accounts hearing on the Special Examination—Public Sector Pension Investment Board – 15 Febraury 2022

Briefing Package for the Public Accounts hearing on Follow-up hearing on 2021 Report 9 — Investing in Canada Plan – 16 June 2022

Briefing Package for the Public Accounts hearing on Follow-up hearing on 2021 Report 3 — Access to Safe Drinking Water in First Nations Communities – 14 June 2022

Briefing Package for the Public Accounts hearing on Public Accounts on the Public Accounts of Canada 2021 – 3 May 2022

Briefing Package for the Public Accounts hearing on the 2020-21 Departmental Results Report and the 2022-23 Departmental Plan – 5 May 2022