1. Some veterans are forced to wait as long as eight months to find out if they can receive benefits. The disability benefits program application is complex and time-consuming.
2. Many veterans must endure long delays in obtaining medical and service records from National Defence and long wait times for mental health assessments.
3. The Nutrition North program, which subsidizes the high cost of healthy food in northern communities, does not properly distribute subsidies or make sure consumers properly receive savings.
4. Nutrition North, which was intended to foster healthy eating, subsidizes foods of dubious health value, such as ice cream, bacon and processed cheese spread.
5. It’s impossible to fully assess the effectiveness of $13.9 billion in loans Canada and Ontario provided to Chrysler and GM’s Canadian subsidiaries after the 2008 financial crisis because of a lack of comprehensive reporting to Parliament.
6. Library and Archives Canada has a backlog of 98,000 boxes of material waiting to be archived — some of it dating back to 1890 — with no plan for how to deal with it.
7. Canada’s national sex offender registry may omit some Canadians convicted abroad because the RCMP doesn’t have access to Foreign Affairs information on convicts released from prisons in other countries.
8. Canada’s reverse-osmosis water purifiers, long a marquee element of the Canadian military’s disaster relief efforts, produced only 65 per cent of projected output after last year’s Typhoon Haiyan disaster in the Philippines, and only 73 per cent of that was ever distributed.
9. The military’s Integrated Relocation Program, which compensates members when their work requires them to move, requires better oversight and review.
Original Article
Source: thestar.com/
Author: Blair Gable
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