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What you need to know about the AG's report

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Sabrina Nanji
Dec 01, 2022
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ABOVE THE FOLD

ALL ABOUT THE AG REPORT — Auditor General BONNIE LYSYK dropped her annual value-for-money report on Thursday. It’s over 1,000 pages filled with nitty-gritty details on government waste and spending woes.

Here are the key points:

— TOP DOC: Doctors were paid five times more than nurses to administer anti-Covid shots, earning between $170 and $220 per hour, compared to nurses, who were paid $32 to $49. Pharmacists made $30 to $57.

— HOT SPOTS: Determining Covid “hot spots” where vaccinations would be prioritized was not always consistently applied. Nine high-risk neighbourhoods were missed. While the Ministry of Health “did not apply their chosen method of selection consistently across all postal code regions,” Lysyk said “political interference” wasn’t a factor.

— HIGHWAYS, HIGHWAYS, HIGHWAYS: Lysyk is calling for more transparency for a change-up in transit priorities and said the PCs were “ignoring” their own advice on the 413. As directed by the Minister, the Transporta…

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