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Christmas comes early for reporters, Oppo critics, and anyone interested in government accountability and transparency — Auditor General SHELLEY SPENCE drops her hotly-anticipated annual report today.

Topics she’s digging into include: Oversight of Access to Primary Care…Oversight of Medical Education in Family Medicine…Oversight of Physician Billing…Resource Productivity and Recovery Authority…Supply Ontario: Management of Personal Protective Equipment…Operation of the Environmental Bill of Rights…Review of Government Advertising…The Public Accounts of the Province of Ontario…Operations Report…and a Report on the Standing Committee on the Public Accounts.

Pre-game: On the eve of the report’s tabling, Spence gave a closed-door briefing to the Public Accounts committee on her special report on the hot-potato Skills Development Fund.

Because the AG gets special and broader access to government documents than the rest of us in the public…