Alberta’s auditor general estimates the government’s failed effort to privatize community lab testing services left taxpayers on the hook for about $109 million.

Auditor General Doug Wylie says in a new report that politicians at the time pushed the deal forward, despite warnings from bureaucrats that the expected savings wouldn’t materialize.

He says there were major failures with oversight, records management and financial analysis in the deal with private lab tester DynaLife.

In the spring of 2022, the Alberta government signed a 15-year contract with DynaLife to fully privatize lab testing services in the province.

But as wait lists for testing stretched into weeks and months, the province terminated the contract, bought out the company and returned lab testing to the public system

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