The House of Commons health committee has requested an audit of the federal government’s interim federal health program, which cost nearly $800 million last year to cover medical claims by refugee claimants and immigration detainees.
Conservative MP Dan Mazier sponsored the motion at a Nov. 20 health committee meeting asking the auditor general to conduct the audit. He said the purpose of the audit is to examine the “significant increase in cost, usage, and impacts on provincial health care systems,” and he asked that it be completed by Feb. 7, 2026.
MPs also motioned to ask the parliamentary budget officer to conduct a fiscal analysis of the interim federal health program and assess the drivers behind the recent increases in the program’s cost and usage by Jan. 30, 2026. The motion also requested that the auditor general and parliamentary budget officer appear before the health committee separately to discuss their respective findings….