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Alberta’s auditor general openly criticized the Albertan provincial government on Tuesday, complaining about its failure to fully report its activities to Albertans. In the 86-page report issued on Tuesday, Merwan Saher highlighted that the governing Tories only provide scant superficial information about ministry activities across-the-board. He stressed that they fail to identify the most important issues, provide scant information about progress and skimp on analysis.
In his report, Saher stressed that rather than providing meaningful information to Albertans, departmental annual reports tend to “provide long lists of activities and programs.” Saher alleged that “I’m not saying the government doesn’t know what it’s doing,” but “I’m saying the government isn’t telling Albertans.” Furthermore, Saher pointed out that “there is often a feeling that if things are not going well … let’s maybe not talk about it, and maybe it will go away” but “that’s completely the wrong thing to do. When things aren’t going well, explain why they’re not going well, explain what you’re learning, and what you plan to do about it.” Saher also added that “ministerial oversight has been lacking, because good oversight would have insisted on there being good results reporting.”
In addition to that, Saher’s report called on the Progressive Conservative government to provide a more detailed “constructed budget” at the beginning of the fiscal year, when the budget is first tabled. However, Finance Minister Doug Horner straightforwardly refused the recommendation, alleging that “there is a wide range of opinion on the presentation of the provincial budget” but it is “a policy document that remains at the full discretion of the government.”
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