EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is distancing herself from a multimillion-dollar lab testing debacle involving the former private provider DynaLife.

Smith, speaking in the legislature Thursday, said that the problems predated her time in office and that when she came in, she moved quickly to fix them.

“We knew that there was a problem right after the election,” Smith said in question period.

“We’re very pleased that we were able to identify the issues, we were able to ensure that we acted quickly, and we were also able to ensure that patients got the services they needed.”

Her comments come a day after Alberta’s auditor general reported that some $109 million in public funds went to waste through the government’s effort to privatize provincewide lab services in 2022.

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