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Response to Parliamentary Committees and External Audits


Response to Parliamentary Committees

The department has not received any recommendation from the reports that were tabled by the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities. Therefore, the department has not provided any response to this Parliamentary Committee.

In March 2010, the Standing Committee on Public Accounts issued its Third Report – Chapter 7, Special Examination of Crown Corporations — 2008 of the Spring 2009 Report of the Auditor General of Canada. The report had three recommendations that address the Great Lakes Pilotage Authority’s regulations and financial sustainability. It also has four recommendations for via Rail asking for a progress report on what actions the corporation has taken to implement the Auditor General’s recommendations, on the measures to mitigate risks and threats to its information technology system, on the status of spending for improving stations on the Windsor-Quebec corridor, and the status of its plans for increased ridership and revenue.

The Government Response was tabled in the House on September 20, 2010.

On September 20, 2010, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada tabled its Government Response to the Third Report of the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food: Competitiveness of Canadian Agriculture (adopted by the Committee on May 6, 2010), in which Transport Canada provided input for Recommendation 4.9 that the government follow promptly on the conclusions of the study Transport Canada was then conducting on levels of service in rail transport of grain. Following the government response, the department released its Rail Freight Service Review — Final Report in January 2011.

The Government Response was tabled in the House on September 20, 2010.

Response to the Auditor General and the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development

Chapter 1 of the Auditor General’s fall 2010 report concerned the delivery of selected Economic Action Plan programs of 12 departments. Transport Canada was covered by the Modernizing Federal Laboratories line of inquiry. There was no recommendation to Transport Canada. The audit report is available on the Office of the Auditor General's website.

Chapter 1 of the Commissioner of Environment and Sustainable Development’s fall 2010 report was an audit of oil spills from ships. It examined how Transport Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (Canadian Coast Guard) and Environment Canada had managed spills of oil and chemicals from ships in Canada’s Arctic, Pacific, and Atlantic Ocean waters, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Three recommendations were addressed. Transport Canada accepted the recommendations and provided a management response that has been included in the report. The report and management action plan are available on the Office of the Auditor General's website.