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Vaughn Palmer: Auditor didn't delve too deep on spending by Lytton

Agency believes lack of reports on spending provincial aid dollars was down to staffing issues, enormity of destruction, not bad faith

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VICTORIA — Five years after Lytton was destroyed by fire, the New Democrats are unable to say if all of the millions of dollars in provincial recovery funding were used for the intended purposes by the troubled community.

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The lapse in reporting on the use of public funds was detailed in this week’s report from Auditor General Bridget Parrish on provincial government support for Lytton after the June 2021 fire.

Vaughn Palmer: Auditor didn't delve too deep on spending by Lytton........

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