Alberta’s auditor general Doug Wylie says his office's budget will be $1.5 million short next fiscal year.

A legislative committee, with a majority of UCP MLAs, gave Wylie’s office just under $2.4 million in supplemental funding to finish out this year, but opted not to grant the full increase it had requested for 2026-27.

Wylie told CBC News he is disappointed and felt he was clear with the committee that his office had already taken voluntary cuts, and anything further would have consequences.

“The budget reduction is really going to jeopardize our ability to complete all the financial statement audits that have been requested of us,” he said.

The government requested that Wylie’s office audit eight new health-care agencies, as it broke up Alberta Health Services and restructured the

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