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March 2018 Follow-up of Recommendations Our visionTh e Offi ce of the Auditor General is an accessible, transparent and independent audit offi ce, serving the Manitoba Legislature with the highest standard of professional missionTo provide the Legislative Assembly with high quality audits and recommendations, and to focus our resources on areas of strategic importance to the Assembly. Our values Respect Honesty Integrity OpennessOur priorities Strengthen the management systems and practices of government organizations Provide Members of the Legislative Assembly with relevant and useful informationon the performance of government entities Support the Public Accounts Committee in its eff orts to improve the performanceof government organizations Manage our internal business effi ciently, eff ectively and economicallyOur critical success factors Independence from government Reliable audit opinions and conclusions Relevance of

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1 March 2018 Follow-up of Recommendations Our visionTh e Offi ce of the Auditor General is an accessible, transparent and independent audit offi ce, serving the Manitoba Legislature with the highest standard of professional missionTo provide the Legislative Assembly with high quality audits and recommendations, and to focus our resources on areas of strategic importance to the Assembly. Our values Respect Honesty Integrity OpennessOur priorities Strengthen the management systems and practices of government organizations Provide Members of the Legislative Assembly with relevant and useful informationon the performance of government entities Support the Public Accounts Committee in its eff orts to improve the performanceof government organizations Manage our internal business effi ciently, eff ectively and economicallyOur critical success factors Independence from government Reliable audit opinions and conclusions Relevance of audit work performed Knowledge.

2 Skills and abilities of our staff Our contact information Offi ce of the Auditor General 500 330 Portage Avenue Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada R3C 0C4 Phone: (204) 945-3790 Fax: (204) 945-2169 Email: Copies of this report can be found on our website General Norm RicardDeputy Auditor General Tyson Shtykalo Assistant Auditor Generals Sandra CohenGreg MacBeth Communications Manager Frank LandryDesktop Publisher Jomay Amora Corporate ServicesJomay AmoraTara MacKayKen NeroLarry ObelnickiShirley RichardsonJim Stephen Photographer Ian McCausland PhotographyCover design Cocoon Branding Inc.

3 March 2018 The Honourable Myrna Driedger Speaker of the House Room 244, Legislative Building 450 Broadway Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 0V8 Honourable Ms. Driedger: It is an honour to provide you with my report titled, Follow-up of Recommendations, to be laid before Members of the Legislative Assembly in accordance with the provisions of Section 28 of The Auditor General Act. Respectfully submitted, Norm Ricard, CPA, CA Auditor General 500 - 330 Portage Avenue Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 0C4 office: (204) 945-3790 fax: (204) 945-2169 Table of contents Auditor General of Manitoba March 2018 Follow-up of Recommendations i Auditor General s 1 Follow-up 5 Results of our follow-up 9 No additional follow-up reviews 15 August 2013 Report to the Legislature Rural Municipality of Lac du 17 March 2014 Report to the Legislature Accounts and Financial Statements.

4 19 Helicopter Ambulance 22 Managing the Province s Adult Offenders .. 26 Manitoba s Framework for an Ethical 32 Manitoba Hydro Managing Cyber Security Risk Related to Industrial Control Systems .. 41 Waiving of Competitive Bids .. 44 At least one more follow-up review 51 July 2015 Report to the Legislature WRHA s Management of Risks Associated with End-user 53 Manitoba Home Care 56 January 2016 Report to the Legislature Improving Educational Outcomes for Kindergarten to Grade 12 Aboriginal July 2016 Report to the Legislature Management of Provincial 68 September 2016 Report to the Legislature Keeyask Process Costs and Adverse Effects Agreements with First 71 September 2016 Report to the Legislature Manitoba East Side Road 73 Auditor General s comments Auditor General s comments Auditor

5 General of Manitoba March 2018 Follow-up of Recommendations 3 In this report we present the statuses of 224 recommendations as at September 30, 2017. We note that 96 (43%) have been implemented. We believe that significant progress has been made on 15 of the 119 recommendations that remain in progress. We follow-up the status of recommendations for 3 consecutive years, beginning a year to 18 months after issuance. As such, this is the final follow-up for the 98 recommendations included in our March 2014 Report to the Legislature (comprised of 9 chapters) and the 2 recommendations included in the August 2013 Report to the Legislature.

6 With respect to these 100 recommendations, we note that only 67 have been implemented. Of the 31 recommendations still in progress, significant progress is only evident on 4. Of particular note is that several recommendations that I believe are very important remain largely unimplemented. These recommendations deal with: conducting independent quality assurance reviews on STARS clinical operations. developing a long-term capital plan for adult correctional facilities. developing a values and ethics policy or code of conduct for all civil servants. monitoring how well government departments are implementing ethics-related policies and providing support to those with less-developed implementation processes.

7 Providing public servants with a vehicle to anonymously report concerns of ethical misconduct. I encourage the Public Accounts Committee to continue monitoring the status of these recommendations by requesting detailed action plans from each of the relevant government organizations and critically assessing the adequacy of planned actions and the appropriateness of the planned timeframe. The Committee should also consider which of the other in-progress recommendations, if any, it should continue monitoring. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the many public servants we met with during our follow-up reviews for their cooperation and assistance, and for providing progress reports and support documentation by the requested dates.

8 This made it possible for us to conduct our work and to issue this report within the planned timeframes. Norm Ricard, CPA, CA Auditor General Follow-up process Follow-up process Auditor General of Manitoba March 2018 Follow-up of Recommendations 7 A follow-up review begins when we request a status update from management. The implementation status is to be determined as at the forthcoming September 30. When status updates are received we conduct review procedures (see Nature of a review on page 8) to assess the plausibility of the recommendation statuses provided.

9 We do not re-perform audit procedures from the original audit. A follow-up review is scheduled 12 to 18 months after an audit report is released, and annually thereafter for 2 more years (for a total of 3 years). Status categories The implementation status of each recommendation is described using one of the following categories: Implemented/resolved The recommendation has been implemented or an alternate solution has been implemented that fully addresses the risk identified in the original report. Action no longer required The recommendation is no longer relevant due to changes in circumstances. Do not intend to implement Management does not intend to implement our recommendation or to otherwise address the risk identified in our original report.

10 Work in progress Management is taking steps to implement our recommendation. Report format This report includes 13 follow-up reports. We have organized the follow-up reports into 2 sections: No additional follow-up reviews scheduled. At least one more follow-up review scheduled. For each follow-up report we identify who is responsible for implementing our recommendations. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will be able to use this information to identify the appropriate witnesses to call to their meetings. Follow-up reports include a chart indicating the current implementation status of our recommendations as at September 30, 2017, as well as tables listing all the recommendations made, organized by implementation status.


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