The findings were published in a report from the Office of the Auditor General released last week. "We welcome the findings of the auditor general and have already made the necessary changes to our financial reporting," he wrote. The date change also meant the 2019-20 financial statements only recorded 11 months of program expenditures, a violation of public sector accounting standards. Sawhney defended the date change repeatedly in the legislature in late February and early March, even when Renaud asked if they were adjusted to make her ministry's finances look better. So she and committee chair Shannon Philips, the NDP MLA for Lethbridge West, wrote Auditor General Doug Wylie requesting he look into it.

Source: CBC News November 12, 2020 15:00 UTC