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• PUBLIC PROTECTION, PRIVACY AND THE SEARCH FOR BALANCE: A STATUTORY REVIEW OF THE DNA IDENTIFICATION ACT

  Report of the Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs presented to the Senate on June 28, 2010

  • Government Response (December 2010)

    Response signed by both the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Public Safety

• POWER OF COMMITTEES TO ORDER THE PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS

  Report of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts adopted by the Committee on November 18, 2009 and presented to the House on December 3, 2009

  • Government Response (March 31, 2010)

    Response signed by both the Minister of Justice and the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons

The Department is mentioned in the Auditor Generals 2011 Spring Report, Chapter 3 – Internal Audit, an element of which assessed: whether departments were meeting the Policy requirement to have an external review of the internal audit function conducted at least once every five years; and, whether departments had made satisfactory progress in addressing Recommendation 1.92 of the 2004 November Report of the Auditor General, which recommended that departments should ensure that their internal audit groups conduct an external quality assessment by January 2007. These assessments cover the entire spectrum of internal audit work that the internal audit activity performs. The Auditor General found that few departments, including Justice Canada, have had an external quality assessment review and evaluated progress as unsatisfactory. Consequently, section 3.80 of the chapter recommends:

• Departments that have not had an external quality assessment should have an assessment conducted as required by the International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing and the Treasury Board Policy on Internal Audit.

The Department of Justice Canada’s response: Agreed.

The Department of Justice is planning to conduct an external quality assessment during the 2011–12 fiscal year.

The Department was not the subject of an audit conducted by either the Public Service Commission of Canada or the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages in 2010-11.