Nova Scotia auditor general credits government on progress fulfilling recommendations – Halifax [Video]

Nova Scotia auditor general Kim Adair said Tuesday the provincial government has made substantial progress toward acting on recommendations she made from 2020 to 2022.

In the first followup report since her office staved off government measures threatening her independence, Adair awarded the Progressive Conservative government a place on her “honour roll.” She told reporters the Tories had implemented 82 of 103 audit recommendations over the three years, including all recommendations from the 2021 audit.

“This year, I’m happy to report government has completed 80 per cent of the recommendations from those three years, a marked improvement over last year’s score of 60 per cent,” Adair said. Every year the auditor general publishes a report to check back on progress made addressing shortcomings identified in previous audits.

The new report comes after Premier Tim Houston announced he was withdrawing proposed legislation that would have allowed his government to fire the …