Auditor general of Canada

With the Canada, the Auditor general (in English: Auditor General off Canada ) is charged to control the financial management of the public authority at the federal level.

Statute and attributions

Its statute is defined in the law of August 1st, 1977 on the auditor general. It checks the exactitude of the financial statements of the federal government, the various government organizations and several companies of the Crown. It examines the way in which the public authorities apply the decisions that it took. Independent of the government, it is named for ten years a nonrenewable mandate by the Prime Minister, on a proposal from the Parliament. It returns a report/ratio to the House of Commons. The auditor general of Canada east currently Sheila Fraser, named on May 31st, 2001. Its office employs approximately 600 people with Ottawa and in four regional centres.

The auditor general proceeds to three types of control:

checking of certificate (exactitude of the financial statements)
checking of conformity (respect by the various public agencies of the laws, the payments and attributions which theirs is entrusted)
checking of management (evaluation of the success of the carried out actions)

Each province of Canada has its own auditor general.

External bond

Site of the office of the auditor general of Canada.

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