Date: June 26, 2025 Our Annual Report for the 2024/25 fiscal year highlights the office’s achievements and summarizes the independent assurance and trusted information we provided to the Legislative Assembly. This is a report on our work toward the goals, objectives, and performance measures set out in our annual service plan. The annual financial statements…

Date: April 29, 2025 Our objective was to determine whether Legal Aid BC had processes and information to help ensure eligible individuals received timely and high-quality legal representation services. We concluded that Legal Aid BC didn’t have processes and information to help ensure that eligible individuals received timely and high-quality legal representation services. Legal Aid…

Date: April 23, 2025 The Office of the Auditor General’s Service Plan 2025/26–2027/28 arrives at a time of transition for our team, with the retirement of former auditor general Michael A. Pickup in November 2024. In many ways, his four-year tenure transformed the way our office reports on our work and how we engage with…

Date: March 18, 2025 Our audit report looks at the Ministry of Forests, its commitment to climate change mitigation, and how the ministry knows if some of its forest management decisions have an impact on B.C.’s forest carbon balance. Forest management can help mitigate climate change. It can enhance how forests – and forest products…

Date: February 27, 2025 The Province of British Columbia’s 2018 ChildCareBC plan included a commitment to add capacity in regional health authorities to license, monitor, and investigate child care facilities. Child care facility licensing is the responsibility of the Ministry of Health and the five regional health authorities. But the Ministry of Education and Child…

Date: February 25, 2025 Government oversees the process to appoint members to the boards of about 230 public sector organizations. Each organization has a board to ensure the appropriate use of resources, and that the organization serves the public interest. There are about 2,000 public sector board members who are appointed by government. Our audit…

On April 8, 2024, the Legislative Assembly unanimously passed a resolution directing our office to do an independent examination of MNP, a professional services firm administering a provincial grant program for the zero-emission vehicle sector, after conflict-of-interest allegations were made. Our examination found no evidence that MNP wrote grant applications for ARC program applicants, influenced…

Our Annual Report and Financial Statements 2023/24 highlights achievements and summarizes the independent assurance and trusted information we provided to the Legislative Assembly. We report on our work toward the goals, objectives, and performance measures set out in our annual service plan. Highlights include: completion of office renovations led by the province’s Leading Workplace Strategies…

On April 8, 2024, the Legislative Assembly directed the auditor general to “undertake an examination of the administration of grants by MNP LLP under the Advanced Research and Commercialization Program (ARCP) and the Commercial Vehicle Innovation Challenge.” The resolution directed an interim report within 90 days and a final report by September 1, 2024. Our…