Provincial auditor general Kim Adair answers questions during a news conference in Halifax in December. - Ryan TaplinThe provincial auditor general has identified a grave conflict of interest issue at the Metropolitan Regional Housing Authority.
“We also discovered the director sold personal property to the contractor during the tendering of security services and again after the awarding of the contract.” A finding of criminal wrongdoing was not the scope of the report, Adair said, and she has not passed any information along to the police or recommended to the province that it bring the findings to the police.
"I think the government has an issue with conflicts of interest," Clark said."This is happening not just in housing but across the board. The first thing they did when they were elected was to get rid of the Nova Scotia Health Authority board and replace it with a Tory insider, who had lots of experience in that party, but I would argue that health care has not improved but has in fact deteriorated significantly since then.
The department agrees with all the recommendations and has already taken steps to implement and in some cases resolve them, she said.