Last December, Liberal MP Omar Alghabra, his party’s Natural Resources Critic, wrote to Auditor General Sheila Fraser to ask her to do a special examination of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL), a Crown corporation. Fraser wrote back to tell Alghabra that, under federal law, crown corporations are subject to a special examination at least once every five years and that she had just completed such an examination of AECL.
Fraser said she presented her report to the board of AECL on Sept. 5, 2007.
She went on to say, “Although there is no statutory requirement that federal Crown corporations make special examination reports public, there is an expectation that they do so … To the best of our knowledge, AECL has yet to release its special examination report…”
UPDATE: Well, look at that! A few
hours after Stephane Dion brought up the absence of the AG Audit of
AECL at a nationally televised news conference, AECL has posted the audit on its Web site.