Alberta’s NDP would conduct a full public inquiry of the UCP government’s pandemic mismanagement and a full forensic audit of COVID-19 spending if elected in 2023.
The commitment follows Wednesday’s report from Alberta’s Auditor General, which investigated $4 billion in spending by the UCP government attributed to managing the COVID-19 pandemic in fiscal year 2020-21.
The report repeatedly outlined millions of dollars that either could not be traced by auditors, were not accounted for, or could not be demonstrably linked to any beneficial results for the people of Alberta, the NDP said in a statement Thursday.
“Alberta, we will find your four billion dollars,” said Finance Critic Shannon Phillips.
“Albertans deserve a government that has their fiscal priorities in order, that knows what it is funding, that tracks its progress, that fixes its mistakes, and that knows where and how every penny is being spent to make life better.”
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