Integrated relocation program 2009

This was one such area," Mr. Desjardins said. The Auditor-General's office looked into the program in Leslie will be in the public spotlight Friday when he speaks at the Liberal Party's convention in Montreal. The former top soldier has defended the claim saying in a statement earlier this week that he was offered and accepted a standard benefit available to Forces personnel retiring after 20 or more years of service.

He said his family "After moving homes 18 times in the service of my country, I was glad to make a new house in Ottawa our new, permanent home," he said in the statement.

This report presents the results of a performance audit conducted by the Office of the Auditor General of Canada under the authority of the Auditor General Act. A performance audit is an independent, objective, and systematic assessment of how well government is managing its activities, responsibilities, and resources.

Audit topics are selected based on their significance. While the Office may comment on policy implementation in a performance audit, it does not comment on the merits of a policy. Performance audits are planned, performed, and reported in accordance with professional auditing standards and Office policies. They are conducted by qualified auditors who. Performance audits contribute to a public service that is ethical and effective and a government that is accountable to Parliament and Canadians.

It is the policy of the Government of Canada that employees be relocated in the most efficient fashion, at the most reasonable cost to the public, while having a minimum detrimental effect on the members or employees, their families, and departmental operations.

The government contracts out relocation services under the IRP. Under the contract, the contractor provides relocation services to members of the Canadian Armed Forces and the RCMP, and employees of the Government of Canada in accordance with their respective relocation policies. These services include claim processing, and the provision of information, counselling, and professional assistance at every step of the relocation process.

Also included are relocation planning, marketing assistance, and destination services. The contractor also provides access to third-party service providers such as realtors, lawyers and notaries, home inspectors, appraisers, and rental search agencies. These separate models were intended to take into account the different operating locations and environments of the organizations. This includes verifying that the contractor has complied with all technical requirements, and reviewing and approving all final deliverables.

We also examined the extent to which the government had established appropriate performance measures for the relocation contracts. We concluded that the organizations had not developed the tools or indicators needed to assess the performance of the contractor. We concluded that while the responsible organizations had followed most of the established processes for a competitive process, some barriers remained that did not facilitate access and encourage competition.

We assessed the extent to which the Canadian Armed Forces and the RCMP had monitored the services provided under the contract and taken corrective action, when necessary, in the areas of financial management and performance measurement. Moving services for household goods and effects are provided at an additional cost under separate contracts, and are not within the scope of this audit.

The rules and regulations we refer to are those that apply to public servants; they do not apply to the contractor.

We did not audit the contractor. Consequently, our conclusions do not pertain to any practices the contractor followed. We also did not assess individual claims made by relocated employees or members, or activities related to the moving of household goods.

More details about the audit objective, scope, approach, and criteria are in About the Audit at the end of this chapter. Effective financial and administrative controls support government organizations in their duty to safeguard public assets, use their resources economically and efficiently, and produce accurate and reliable financial information for reporting and decision making. Overall, we found that the RCMP has improved financial and administrative controls for relocation transactions.

The process that the Canadian Armed Forces has implemented does not provide enough assurance that the payments are in accordance with the contract and the related policies. Please reach out with any questions or concerns. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser.

It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Thread starter McG Start date 25 Nov McG Army. Reaction score Points I also cannot help but imagine that a system better set-up to catch under and over payments would, more often than not, benefit members and families. Auditor General: Tighter controls still needed on relocation programs ottawacitizen.

Auditor-General Michael Ferguson's latest audit into the federal government's controversial relocation contract found the RCMP had procedures to properly monitor spending under the contact but the Canadian Forces lacked "adequate financial controls.

The contract to manage the Integrated Relocation Program was last retendered in and won by Brookfield Global Relocation Services, which has held the contract since This was the second audit Ferguson released this year into the relocation program, which has been under scrutiny for more than a decade in series of tribunals, hearings and a long legal battle over the and contract. The audit focused only on three years of transactions under the contract handled by the military and RCMP, which account for most of the moves.

Under the contract, Brookfield provides a range of services. It counsels and manages the moves for those being transferred, organizes out-of-town trips to hunt for and buy a new home, looking after the costs for such items as house appraisals and the fees to get out of mortgages or leases, money which is then reimbursed by the government. The cost of actually moving furniture and household goods is dealt with in separate contracts with moving companies.

The auditor-general last examined the relocation program in and found many deficiencies in the program's management, which the audit found have since been improved. This includes relocation planning, marketing assistance and destination services along with several other enhanced relocation services. It reads: "eligible relocation" means a relocation of a taxpayer where: the relocation occurs to enable the taxpayer i to carry on a business or to be employed at a location in Canada in section 62 and this subsection referred to as "the new work location" , or ii to be a student in full-time attendance enrolled in a program at a post-secondary level at a location of a university, college or other educational institution in section 62 and in this subsection referred to as "the new work location" , both the residence at which the taxpayer ordinarily resided before the relocation in section 62 and this subsection referred to as "the old residence" and the residence at which the taxpayer ordinarily resided after the relocation in section 62 and this subsection referred to as "the new work location" are in Canada, and the distance between the old residence and the new work location is not less than 40 kilometres greater than the distance between the new residence and the new work location Previous Index Next.

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