In a few very troubling cases, sponsorship funds were transferred to Crown corporations using what the Auditor General called "highly questionable methods."
The report made a series of allegations that the former ombudsman, Ron Stewart, had "often skipped work and collected $325,000 in improper or questionable salary, vacation pay and expenses during his 14-year tenure".
[citation needed] During the week of January 18 to 22, 2010, Fraser visited Afghanistan to observe the military and development progress of the Canadian mission there.
[5] She gave her last public speech, on May 25, 2011, at the Canadian Club of Ottawa, entitled Serving Parliament Through a Decade of Change, where she warned the government faces long-term fiscal pressures that will mean "very hard choices" between raising taxes or cutting programs and encouraged the government to publicize its long-term fiscal projections because "without them, we cannot begin to understand the scale and complexity of our financial challenges and the implication of policy choices.".
Fraser also criticized the "truly shocking" lack of improvement on First Nations reserves and also said "I actually think it's quite tragic when you see that there is a population in this country that does not have the sort of basic services that Canadians take for granted.".