(This column originally appeared in the Toronto Sun)
The release of an Auditor General's report is rarely a happy occasion for the government of the day, and this fall's offering from federal Auditor General Michael Ferguson was no exception: from a stinging indictment of the billion-dollar Phoenix payroll system boondoggle, to a clear failure by immigration officials to properly track key indicators about Syrian refugees, to evidence of poor governance at the Royal Military College of Canada.