Nova Scotia's auditor general says the province doesn't have a good grasp of whether its programs to help problem gamblers are working. Michael Pickup says there's been years of delays in setting standards for helping people with gambling addictions, and the province failed to find out why relatively few people are calling a problem gambling help line. (The auditor also looked at government procurement policies for professional services and found sometimes work starts on a job before a contract is even signed.)

Date: 2015-06-17
Placeline: HALIFAX.
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 18 seconds

Transcript Prediction: << if they're serious about looking after this stuff some of these are our basic you know taken 7 years to to update standards by joining a number of these other things like figuring out why the line Y the helpline you so poorly access do you know get this stuff done >>

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