Chief among the auditor general nominee's priorities will be to work with government to secure an 'immediate' funding boost and to establish an independent funding mechanism that would address the office’s financial constraints.
Conservative MP Dean Allison, chair of the Public Accounts Committee, asked Karen Hogan, nominee for auditor general, whether she can provide an estimate of how much additional funding her office might need. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
The federal government’s nominee for auditor general says the office is in the early stages of plotting the scope of its audits into the feds’ COVID-19 spending.
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Apologizing for 'tensions' that became public over the last months, Julie Payette said that 'we all experience things differently, but we should always strive to do better, and be attentive to one another’s perceptions.'
The killing of Marylène Lévesque by a parolee in January 2020 was a ‘catastrophic failure, which is tantamount to a wrongful death,’ says prison watchdog Ivan Zinger.
Quebec is expected to once again be a key electoral battleground, spurred on by the Bloc Québécois’ resurgence in 2019, with multiple candidates already nominated in three target ridings.
He faced potential expulsion last year during the leadership race over comments he made that appeared to question whether chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam, who is of Asian descent, was a pawn of China.
'I hope that intelligence and security officials in Canada learned after what they saw in the U.S. and can make sure something like that does not happen here,' says Ottawa-turned-Washington correspondent Richard Madan.
‘The rise of political extremism, white supremacy, and domestic terrorism [is one] that we must confront and will defeat,’ said U.S. President Joe Biden in his first address.