The Public Health Agency of Canada has no idea whether three-quarters of people who arrived by air earlier this year obeyed the requirement to quarantine at government-authorized hotels as part of the enforcement effort to limit the spread ofCOVID-19.
Auditor General Karen Hogan probed the agency’s tracking of measures put in place in response to the pandemic, currently poised to enter its third year.
Her report was released Thursday. In it, she assessed whether officials had listened to warnings last year responding to gaping holes in the agency’s ability to track whether travellers were following the rules. “Though the Public Health Agency of Canada improved its results, this is not a success story,” said Hogan in a statement on Thursday.