Canadian Food Inspection Agency Act

Marginal note:Annual report

• 23 (1) The President must, before September 30 of each year following the Agency’s first full year of operations, submit an annual report on the operations of the Agency for the preceding year to the Minister and the Minister must table a copy of the report in each House of Parliament on any of the first fifteen days on which that House is sitting after the Minister receives the report.

• Marginal note:Form and contents

  (2) The annual report must include

  • (a) the financial statements of the Agency and the Auditor General of Canada’s opinion on them;

  • (b) information about the Agency’s performance with respect to the objectives established in the corporate business plan and a summary statement of the assessment by the Auditor General of Canada of the fairness and reliability of that information; and

  • (c) any other information that the Minister or the Treasury Board may require to be included in it.