Alberta auditor general Doug Wylie will leave the job before his big report on health procurement is written and released.

That could be bad news for Albertans who need the truth about this long-running controversy over spending contracts.

At meetings next Monday and Wednesday, a legislature committee with a UCP majority will pick the candidate for Wylie’s job.

The question is whether that person will be another pit bull on the hunt for facts, or a cosy puppy in line with the UCP.

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The issue became deadly serious this week when the RCMP started executing search warrants, as the Globe and Mail revealed.

The Mounties went into the offices of Edmonton’s MHCare Medical Corp, owned by Sam Mraiche, and also an accounting firm owned by Sam Jaber, who’s associated with MHCare and serves on the board of Invest Alberta.

Both principals and companies deny any wrongdoing.

Wylie has spent the past year investigating three key matters — contracts for private surgical clinics, the Turkish........

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