House Public Accounts Committee ‘stretched’ in playing ‘crucial role’ of holding departments accountable: AG

‘Certainly none of this is going to get any better over the next five years of my mandate if we’re just waiting for the committees to deal with it all’: Michael Ferguson.

Auditor General Michael Ferguson, pictured April 28, 2015, at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa, says parliamentary committees have an important role to play in holding departments to account and that the government could do more to set the tone of expecting that departments take his recommendations seriously.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY RACHEL AIELLO

December 5, 2016

Auditor General Michael Ferguson says MPs on the House Public Accounts Committee responsible for studying his reports are “very challenged and stretched to be able to perhaps have as much influence as they possibly could,” and says he’d like to see other standing committees in both the House...

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