OTTAWA — Many of the living spaces used by Canadian Armed Forces members at several bases are in “poor physical condition” and ripe for overcrowding, Auditor General Karen Hogan said in a report released Tuesday.

Hogan and her team examined living conditions on three Canadian Forces bases: Esquimalt in British Columbia, Gagetown in New Brunswick and Trenton in Ontario.

Hogan said the buildings her team inspected were aging and decrepit — the oldest dates back to the Great Depression — and 32 of 35 need at least one high-priority repair.

“That might mean that building didn’t have safe drinking water … toilets weren’t working, or there was structural damage to the exterior walls of the building,” Hogan told a news conference after the report’s release.

These are “the kind of conditions t

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