The Office of the Auditor General of Ontario serves the Legislative Assembly and the people of Ontario by conducting independent financial statement and performance audits, and special reports. These include audits and reviews of government services and programs in Ontario government ministries, Crown agencies, Crown-controlled corporations, designated administrative authorities, and organizations that receive government grants (including broader-public-sector organizations).
These are typically not investigations of individual issues, but rather they are audits of government programs and services with potential underlying, systemic issues that affect their operations.
In conducting this work, the Office assists the Legislative Assembly in holding the government accountable for its stewardship of public funds and performance outcomes.
We do not:
- intervene in disputes between private citizens, between private citizens and government ministries, designated administrative authorities, and organizations that receive government grants (including broader-public-sector organizations), or between private citizens and businesses;
- review legal decisions, provide legal opinions or other advice, or audit matters that are before the courts;
- audit areas under the exclusive jurisdiction of Indigenous, federal, or municipal governments;
- audit policy decisions, which are the prerogative of the Legislative Assembly and elected officials; or
- provide forms, reports or other publications, or other information about provincial entities, other than what is contained in our audit reports.
