Performance audits related to COVID-19

Canada Emergency Business Account offered small businesses and not-for-profit organizations with loans of up to $60,000 to cover operating costs.

ArriveCAN is a web tool and mobile app that allowed travellers to provide their vaccination status information when required.

Rural Yukon communities are geographically remote, making the delivery of health and social services a challenge and possibly the distribution of vaccines.

Vaccination efforts needed to take into consideration Inuit vaccine hesitancy due to the historical context of colonization and subsequent historical racist healthcare policies and practices.

Bill C-2, an Act to provide further support in response to COVID-19, requires that the Auditor General complete an audit of specific COVID-19 benefits and programs.

The goal of Canada’s COVID-19 immunization response is to enable as many Canadians as possible to be immunized as quickly as possible.

Between July 2020 and June 2021, The Public Health Agency of Canada oversaw COVID-19 testing and quarantine requirements for 2.5 million international travellers.

$50M to assist Canadian employers with costs associated with the mandatory 14-day isolation period imposed on Temporary Foreign Workers.

The federal government commits $415M to reduce food insecurity and support Canada’s food processing capabilities.

The Regional Relief and Recovery Fund is created to provide over $1.5B in additional support to businesses and organizations.

The Onshore program of the Fund was created to help the oil and gas sector recover from the effects of the pandemic.

Procurement figures:

• 14k ventilators
• 56M face shields
• 124M hospital gowns
• 96M N95 masks^{Note *}

$285M in additional support for Indigenous Communities to respond to the public health challenges related to COVID-19.

27 March 2020
The federal government creates a 75% wage subsidy for eligible employers.

27 January 2020
First confirmed case of COVID-19 in Canada.

The Canada Emergency Response Benefit provides $2,000 a month to workers who suffered a loss of income for reasons related to COVID-19.