The Alberta Auditor General has released the report on the 2021 fiscal year. The report outlines $4B in COVID funding and spending but the UCP can't show where it went or what, if any, objectives were met. #Ableg #abpoli 
This is why the federal government needs to attach strings to any funding to Alberta. The UCP cannot be relied upon to use funding as intended. They cannot seem to manage money at all. $4B is an awful lot to have just sort of "vanish". Some examples...
"The province received $1.3 billion in federal funding...We could not trace funds through to the recipient ministry results analysis section to see who spent the money and what was achieved." So, money came from the Feds, and then "poof!", disappears in a cloud of paperwork.
Education capital maintenance and renewal - "the results analysis section had no mention of the $98 million of provincial funding the Ministry of Advanced Education received for capital maintenance and renewal as part of the province's recovery plan."
Read the screen caps from the AG report in the first tweet for yourself. The question I have is, are the UCP just exceptionally ill-suited to the role of government, as evidenced by their complete inability to keep track of large sums of money...
Or is their surplus built on monies that were redirected from the intended purpose and turned up in general revenue? Or, third option, are they robbing us all blind? I cannot think of any interpretation of this AG report that recommends the UCP as "good governance".
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