Re: Commentary: AHS procurement controversy heats up
I agree with the writer that whether concrete answers result from the investigations remains to be seen. That the public has every right to expect everyone involved, including the premier and all government MLA’s be open and transparent as investigators search for the truth.
But I am not particularly hopeful.
First, the report into the investigation of the failed Dynalife lab privatization. Announced in October 2023 and expected to be released in early 2024, it has not been completed.
According to the Office of the Auditor General, the delay is due to difficulties accessing information and scheduling interviews. Not exactly demonstrating openness and willingness to cooperate on the part of those involved.
Then the RCMP investigation into the 2017 leadership race, announced in February 2019, took until March 2024 to conclude.
We know that the AHS CEO was fired on Jan. 6, two days before she was to present her concerns to the auditor general. The meeting did not take place. We have been assured that is a coincidence and unrelated to her firing.
The AHS board was fired on Jan 31. We find out courtesy of the Globe and Mail about a document from AHS counsel, dated Jan. 10, that the AHS board was scheduled to hear an update and draft report by the independent auditing firm PwC Canada and the firm Borden Ladner Gervais, BLG, regarding their investigations for AHS on, guess what, Jan. 31.
That report was never delivered. The investigation shut down, the report not requested.
If never delivered, presumably the report was not included in documents handed over to the current investigations.
How can we have any confidence in a timely and thorough investigation?
S.M. Hogan,
Edmonton
