Canada's Outspoken Environmental Auditor Forced Out; Auditing Process to Be Reviewed

摘要

Ottawa—Canadian Auditor General Sheila Fraser Jan. 30 announced that Johanne Gelinas would be replaced as the federal government's commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, and that a review would be launched of the auditing of the government's environmental and sustainable development programs.rnSpeaking to a parliamentary committee Jan. 31, Fraser denied Gelinas' own claims that she had been forced to step down. Gelinas' reports had been strongly critical of Canada's climate change policies, leading some observers to suspect that she had been forced out for political reasons.