Auditor General Micheal Ferguson says the federal government has no strategy to control the cost of medical marijuana for veterans.
The number of veterans receiving medical marijuana has risen from 112 in 2013-14 to more than 13 hundred in 2015 and the cost has skyrocketed from $408 thousand to more than $12 million and could escalate to $25 million in 2016-17
Ferguson also is critical of the training of the army reserves. He claims reserve soldiers are being sent on missions without the proper level of training which places them and their units in danger.
Ferguson says the army reserve has shrunk over the last two years by a thousand soldiers annually with the result being the army can’t recruit and retain the soldiers it needs.
