OTTAWA -- Highlights from , released Tuesday:
-- ; the disability benefits program has a complex and time-consuming application process and some vets are forced to wait as long as eight months to find out if they can receive benefits.
-- Many veterans must endure long delays in obtaining medical and service records from National Defence and long wait times for mental health assessments.
-- The Nutrition North program, which subsidizes the high cost of healthy food in northern communities, .
-- Nutrition North, which was intended to foster healthy eating, also subsidizes foods of dubious health value, such as ice cream, bacon and processed cheese spread.
-- It's Canada and Ontario provided to Chrysler and GM's Canadian subsidiaries in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis due to a lack of comprehensive reporting to Parliament.
-- , and has a backlog of 98,000 boxes of material waiting to be archived -- some of it dating back to 1890 -- with no plan for how to deal with it.
-- because the RCMP doesn't have access to Foreign Affairs information on convicts released from prisons in other countries.
-- , long a marquee element of the Canadian military's disaster relief efforts, produced only 65 per cent of projected output in the wake of last year's Typhoon Haiyan disaster in the Philippines, and only 73 per cent of that was ever distributed.
-- The military's Integrated Relocation Program, which compensates members when their work requires them to move, .
