Response to Parliamentary Committees and External Audits
Response to parliamentary committees |
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Title: Social Finance as it Relates to Crime Prevention in Canada Summary: In May and June 2014, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security (the Committee/SECU) undertook a study on social finance as it relates to crime prevention in Canada. The Ninth Report of SECU, “Social Finance as it Relates to Crime Prevention in Canada”, was tabled on February 16, 2015. The Report contains ten recommendations that call on the government to maintain steady investments in crime prevention and to utilize social finance mechanisms as a way to expand total funds put toward crime prevention in Canada. The Committee encouraged the government to introduce pilot crime prevention projects to test social finance mechanisms and consider integrating models of social finance into crime prevention programming through the National Crime Prevention Strategy. The Government Response was tabled in June 2015, and Public Safety Canada committed to develop a social finance strategy and implement proof-of-concept pilots to test the application of social finance mechanisms in the domain of crime prevention. The SECU report and the Government Response can be found at: http://www.parl.gc.ca/content/hoc/Committee/412/SECU/Reports/RP7832905/securp09/securp09-e.pdf Title: Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development; Chapter 2: Mitigating the Effects of Severe Weather |
Response to the Auditor General (including to the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development) |
Title: Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development; Chapter 2: Mitigating the Effects of Severe Weather Summary: This audit examined the federal government’s actions to support decision-makers in mitigating the effects of severe weather events as well as Public Safety Canada’s role in coordinating federal efforts. It also assessed whether the federal government is meeting its responsibilities of making Canada’s infrastructure more resilient through its mitigation funding programs. Hyperlink to the department’s response: http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/English/parl_cesd_201605_02_e_41381.html During the reporting period, Public Safety Canada provided one response to the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development in 2015-16, related to Environmental Petition #380. This petition addressed to Public Safety Canada and eight other departments enquired whether the atmosphere should be considered as a critical infrastructure sector in Canada. Public Safety Canada’s response to CESD and the petitioner highlighted that:
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Response to external audits conducted by the Public Service Commission of Canada or the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages |
During the reporting period, Public Safety Canada was not audited by the Public Service Commission or the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages. |
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