Tories call AG’s leaked draft report on $45-million in G8 spending ‘inside baseball’

Auditor General Sheila Fraser was prepared to provide House Speaker Peter Milliken a potentially explosive report on $45.7-million the government spent in Industry Minister Tony Clement’s riding for last year's G8 summit before House Clerk Audrey O'Brien sent out a memo last month advising that no documents can be tabled while Parliament is dissolved.

PARLIAMENT HILL—Auditor General Sheila Fraser would have provided Commons Speaker Peter Milliken a potentially explosive report on $45.7-million the government spent in Industry Minister Tony Clement’s riding for the G8 summit last year had it not been for a memo last month sent from ...

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