The Audit Committee of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly.

Canadian Parliamentary Review - Vol. 32 Nbr. 1, March 2009

Marshall, Elizabeth
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The Audit Committee of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly.

Every jurisdiction in Canada has a board of internal economy of some type or management committee. They are responsible for financial accountability and ensuring that dollars are spent appropriately on the operation of the legislature. This article describes the situation in Newfoundland and Labrador which introduced a number of changes following the report of a Commission of Inquiry on the subject of accountability.

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The House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador has taken a rather unique approach to scrutinizing the expenditures of the Assembly and its members and it is important to give a bit of background about why we now have an Audit Committee.

In February 2000 I was Auditor General and was carrying out a regular audit at the House of Assembly. Very early on I identified what I termed to be questionable expenditures primarily made by one member of the House of Assembly who...



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