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This week, Lynn Desjardins, Wojtek Gwiazda, and Marc Montgomery take a look at some of the stories of particular interest this week.

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 Canada’s Auditor-General released his annual spring report this week. As was expected, there were rather different interpretations of  his report on government spending. It listed numerous concerns including a lack of government-wide monitoring and reporting on public security spending, the challenges facing Canada’s federal search and rescue resources, and a need for the Canada Revenue Agency to do better follow-up with cases, particularly ones dealing with debtors owing more than $1 million dollars

Opposition parties were quick to attack the government over their own interpretation of the report, while the ruling Conservative government vigorously defended itself with its own interpretation of the findings.

Wojtek brings us that story.

We also hear an excerpt of a just released study saying the world’s fish stocks have a better chance of recovery from overfishing, it governments and regulatory agencies act immediately to reduce or stop fishing once a stock is known to be depleted.

Co-author Jeff Hutchings of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, said Canada and the world’s fishing fleets did not stop their overfishing in time to save the cod stocks off Canada’s east coast.

Marc speaks with Dr Hutchings about why Canada’s cod stocks have never recovered, and how we could prevent that happening to other fish stocks around the world

 

And we get a sense of the reaction in Canada to news of the garment factory collapse in Bangladesh. This manufacturer supplied clothing to a number of stores and brand names in Canada and many Canadians were very disturbed to learn about the conditions in such factories where the clothing they buy is made.

Lynn speaks with Cheryl Hotchkiss of World Vision Canada which recently surveyed Canadians on the subject of child labour and working conditions in developing countries.