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(Return tabled) Question No. 9 Mr. Peter Stoffer: With regard to the Veterans Review and Appeal Board (VRAB), legislated by the Veterans Review and Appeal Board Act: (a) who are all permanent and temporary members of the Board, broken down by province and territory, appointed by the Governor in Council since 2006; (b) has the government considered disbanding the VRAB; (c) has the government considered modifying the VRAB; (d) has the government considered implementing a policy to ensure that VRAB appointees by the Governor in Council must have (i) military or RCMP experience, (ii) medical experience; (e) what were the total annual federal funds provided to the VRAB from 2006 to 2011 inclusively; (f) what is a breakdown of the annual spe ...[+++]nding of the VRAB, from 2006 to 2011 inclusively, as it relates to (i) program costs, (ii) administration costs, (iii) salary costs of the VRAB board members, (iv) travel costs for the VRAB board members, (v) VRAB staff costs, (vi) VRAB staff travel costs; (g) how many reports has the VRAB chairperson made to the Minister with respect to the use of resources allocated to the Board from 2006 to 2011 inclusively; (h) when was the last time the Department of Veterans Affairs completed an assurance audit of the VRAB and when is the department planning to conduct the next audit; (i) how often does the department conduct assurance audits of the VRAB; (j) has the department planned an extensive review of the administration of the VRAB; (k) does the Department of Veterans Affairs regularly analyze the reasons why pension decisions are overturned by the VRAB in favour of the client with regard to the interpretation of (i) legislation, (ii) medical issues, (iii) legal issues; (l) has the VRAB provided information to the department on how many pension decisions, made since the VRAB's inception, have been in favour of the veteran client using the benefit of the doubt clause (section 70); and (m) how many pension matters or cases has th ...

After audits by my sector had revealed that investing pension insurance fund assets in special security-based investment funds was economically disadvantageous at the time, on the basis of audit observations drawn up by my sector the Federal Court of Auditors proposed new legal provisions governing such investments which were designed to ensure that the pension insurance funds, and, by extension, their insured persons/contributors, were not penalised economically.

[Text] Question No. 143 Mr. Bill Casey: With regard to any ongoing Transport Canada review of the possible privatization of the Marine Atlantic Inc. Crown corporation: (a) will there be a detailed audit undertaken to determine if any excess pension funds were spent and the current value of the plan; (b) were excess pension funds used to purchase the MV Leif Erickson; (c) were excess pension funds used to buy out union contracts; (d) were excess pension funds used to provide the active Marine Atlantic Inc. employees with a two year pension contributory holiday; (e) does th ...[+++]e government plan to conform to term 32 (1) of the Terms of Union of Newfoundland with Canada and not allow any form of privatization of ferry service between North Sydney and Port aux Basques; (f) as to the agreement reached in 1998 between Marine Atlantic Inc. and union representatives, which grants employees a limited period of time during which they are not required to make pension plan contributions, (i) what is the government’s position on whether or not all pensioners should have received increases to their pension amounts at the same time and (ii) does the government plan to request retroactive payments from Marine Atlantic Inc. to increase the amount of the pension of some pensioners; (g) does the government plan to introduce specific legislation to protect Marine Atlantic Inc. pensioners/survivors and, if so, what provisions does it plan to introduce; and (h) does the government plan to provide legal assistance to the pensioners who were previously employed at Marine Atlantic Inc. so that all questions may be resolved to the satisfaction of all the pensioners?

The Court carried out an audit of the European institutions' Invalidity Pensions Scheme in order to assess the cost of invalidity pensions, identify potential savings, determine whether invalidity pensions are only granted where a real invalidity has been duly recognised, and evaluate whether the institutions have set up the management systems required for adequate monitoring of, and effective control over, the operation of the scheme.

It is the Committee’s view that the audit committee and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board’s auditor each have a role to play in the auditing process, and that the respective roles assigned in the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Act and draft regulations are appropriate.

The annual financial statements of the Canada Pension Plan must be audited by the Auditor General of Canada, and the auditor appointed by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board must provide the Auditor General with any records, accounts, statements or other information considered necessary to audit the annual financial statements of the Plan.