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2020 Statement of Financial Information (Public List) METRO VANCOUVER FINANCIAL INFORMATION ACT FILING STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL INFORMATION FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020 May 2021 THIS STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL INFORMATION INCLUDES THE ACCOUNTS OF: METRO VANCOUVER REGIONAL DISTRICT GREATER VANCOUVER WATER DISTRICT GREATER VANCOUVER SEWERAGE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICT METRO VANCOUVER HOUSING CORPORATION Metro Vancouver Regional District Greater Vancouver Water District Greater Vancouver Sewerage & Drainage District Metro Vancouver Housing Corporation 2020 STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL INFORMATION APPROVAL The undersigned, as authorized by the Financial Information Regulation, Schedule 1, subsection 9(2), approves all the statements and schedules included in this 2020 Statement of Financial Information, produced under the Financial Information Act. Dean Rear, Chief Financial Officer May 1, 2021 Prepared pursuant to the Financial Information Regulation, Schedule 1, section 9 STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL INFORMATION For the Year Ended December 31, 2020 INDEX SECTION I Consolidated Financial Statements SECTION II Other Schedules 1) Guarantee and Indemnity Agreements .......................................................................... None 2) Remuneration and Expenses Members of the Board of Directors And Elected Officials ...................................................................................... Schedule 1 Employees ...................................................................................................... Schedule 2 Reconciliation of Remuneration and Expenses To Financial Statements ................................................................................. Schedule 3 Statement of Severance Agreements ............................................................ Schedule 4 3) Schedule of Payments to Suppliers for Goods and Services Payments to Canadian Suppliers ($CDN) ....................................................... Schedule 5 Payments to U.S. Suppliers ($US) .................................................................. Schedule 6 Reconciliation of Payments for Goods and Services to Financial Statement ..................................................................... Schedule 7 SECTION I Consolidated Financial Statements Consolidated Financial Statements of METRO VANCOUVER REGIONAL DISTRICT (OPERATING AS METRO VANCOUVER) Year ended December 31, 2020 METRO VANCOUVER REGIONAL DISTRICT Index to Consolidated Financial Statements December 31, 2020 Exhibit Management Report Independent Auditor's Report Consolidated Statement of Financial Position A Consolidated Statement of Operations B Consolidated Statement of Change in Net Debt C Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows D Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements Schedule COVID-19 Restart Grant (unaudited) 1 METRO VANCOUVER DISTRICTS AND METRO VANCOUVER HOUSING CORPORATION (Operating as Metro Vancouver) MANAGEMENT REPORT The Consolidated Financial Statements contained in this report have been prepared by management in accordance with Canadian public sector accounting standards. The integrity and objectivity of these statements are management’s responsibility. Management is responsible for all the statements and schedules, and for ensuring that this information is consistent, where appropriate, with the information contained in the financial statements. Management is also responsible for implementing and maintaining a system of internal controls to provide reasonable assurance that reliable financial information is produced. The Metro Vancouver Regional District’s Board of Directors is responsible for approving the consolidated financial statements and for ensuring that management fulfills its responsibilities for financial reporting and internal control and exercises this responsibility through the Performance and Audit Committee of the Board. The external auditors, BDO Canada LLP, conduct an independent examination, in accordance with Canadian Auditing Standards, and express their opinion on the consolidated financial statements. Their examination does not relate to the other unaudited schedules attached to the financial statements and statements required by the Financial Information Act. The Independent Auditor’s Report outlines the scope of the audit for the year ended December 31, 2020. On behalf of the Metro Vancouver Regional District, Greater Vancouver Sewerage & Drainage District, Greater Vancouver Water District and Metro Vancouver Housing Corporation. Date: April 30, 2021 Dean Rear, Chief Financial Officer Tel: 604 688 5421 BDO Canada LLP Fax: 604 688 5132 Unit 1100 –Royal Centre [email protected] 1055 West Georgia Street P.O. Box 11101 www.bdo.ca Vancouver, BC V6E 3P3 Canada Independent Auditor’s Report To the Members of the Board of Directors of the Metro Vancouver Regional District Opinion We have audited the consolidated financial statements of the Metro Vancouver Regional District (the “Consolidated Entity”), which comprise the consolidated Statement of Financial Position as at December 31, 2020, and the consolidated Statements of Operations, Change in Net Debt and Cash Flows for the year then ended, and notes to the consolidated financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. In our opinion, the accompanying consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of the Consolidated Entity as at December 31, 2020 and the results of its operations, change in net debt, and cash flows or the year then ended in accordance with Canadian public sector accounting standards. Basis for Opinion We conducted our audit in accordance with Canadian generally accepted auditing standards. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of the Consolidated Financial Statements section of our report. We are independent of the Consolidated Entity in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the consolidated financial statements in Canada, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. Emphasis of Matter – Restated Comparative Information We draw attention to Note 18 to the financial statements, which explains that certain comparative information presented for the year ended December 31, 2019 has been restated. Our opinion is not modified in respect of this matter. Responsibilities of Management and Those Charged with Governance for the Consolidated Financial Statements Management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of the consolidated financial statements in accordance with Canadian public sector accounting standards, and for such internal control as management determines is necessary to enable the preparation of consolidated financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. In preparing the consolidated financial statements, management is responsible for assessing the Consolidated Entity’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless management either intends to liquidate the Consolidated Entity or to cease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so. Those charged with governance are responsible for overseeing the Consolidated Entity’s financial reporting process. Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of the Consolidated Financial Statements Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with Canadian generally accepted auditing standards will always BDO Canada LLP, a Canadian limited liability partnership, is a member of BDO International Limited, a UK company limited by guarantee, and forms part of the international BDO network of independent member firms. detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these consolidated financial statements. As part of an audit in accordance with Canadian generally accepted auditing standards, we exercise professional judgment and maintain professional skepticism throughout the audit. We also: Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to fraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal control. Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Consolidated Entity’s internal control. Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and
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