Loading ...New Brunswick auditor general says province failed to give any evidence for 33 COVID-era decisions
New Brunswick Auditor General Paul Martin has stated that the province’s Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health was unable to provide evidence-based data to justify 33 different COVID-related decisions it made.
Martin’s office selected 33 public-related recommendations from the province’s Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health, and then asked the department to back up these recommendations with evidence.
“The department was unable to provide requested documentation, acknowledging that they ‘did not create a compendium?or a repository of all of the scientific articles, papers, publications and analyses it consulted during the pandemic and therefore we cannot provide a fulsome and detailed list of all of the evidence consulted and used when recommendations were being formulated,’” noted Martin while speaking to the legislature’s public accounts committee.