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No Good, Very Bad Day: Courtesy Canada's Auditor General
Dental benefit payments ran approximately $1.1 BILLION over budget in the Canadian Dental Care Plan’s first two years. And that is only the beginning of the Auditor General findings examined in this episode.
Chris Baker looks at three federal audits: the dental program’s funding pressure, the Canada Border Services Agency’s costly CARM customs system, and FINTRAC’s delays in providing financial intelligence to law enforcement.
More than $800 million in CARM development and maintenance costs. Thirty-eight manual workarounds. An estimated 92,000 staff hours a year spent navigating them…
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