Chad Irby wrote:
And statements like "Watch lists used to screen visa applicants, refugee
claimants and travelers seeking to enter Canada are in disarray because
of inaccuracies and shoddy updating, Fraser found" do not exactly
reinforce your views that Canada is doing a bang-up job.

Her role is to find flaws. No system is perfect. But you can bet that this
items are being worked on. And while it is true that there is a problem
between the passport office and customs people (to have live access to
cancelled/stolen passport lists), the auditor general did mention that getting
the synchronisation going was a technical challenge and that it can't be done overnight.

The auditor general's report is more a list of things remaining to be done as
opposed to a list of flaws. You need to look at it on a yearly basis to see
the type of progress being made.


I bet that if she were to audit the US systems, it would look far worse and
with far worse problems (for instance, private jetblue data making it to some
conference presentation by a consulting firm).