HIGHLIGHTS FROM AUDITOR GENERAL MICHAEL FERGUSON ’S SPRING 2017 REPORT

❚ The Canadian Food Inspec-

tion Agency, Global Affairs, Indigenous and Northern Affairs, Health Canada and Public Services and Procurement should be doing more to assess and mitigate the risk of fraud, and to ensure employees get mandatory training on values, ethics and conflict of interest. ❚ Neither the Canada Border Services Agency nor Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada are sufficiently monitoring or evaluating the controls they have in place to mitigate the risk of corruption. ❚ Out of 9,082 warnings issued to border agents about potential threats entering

the country between April

2015 and March 2016, 56 were overlooked or missed, and the required follow- up was not completed as required. ❚ Among 3,125 temporary resident permits issued at border crossings between March 2015 and April 2016, 113 of them were approved “without appropriate justification,” including in some cases to people with criminal convictions. ❚ Due to lax paperwork, the border agency and Global Affairs failed to levy $ 168 million of customs duties on about $ 131 million worth of quotacontrolled (supply- managed) goods in Canada in 2015. ❚ The RCMP is failing to meet the mental health needs of its members, with new mental health programs only partially implemented, poorly staffed and inadequately funded; one in six members in need of help failed to get it in a timely way. ❚ RCMP supervisors and health services staff often failed to properly support members returning to work from mental health sick leave. ❚ Oversight problems with Canada’s temporary foreign workers program have allowed lower- paid international workers to take jobs that could be filled by out- of-work Canadians.