OTTAWA - The federal spending watchdog says the Harper government clearly broke the rules when it set up and doled out a controversial $50-million G8 legacy fund.Still, interim Auditor General John Wiersema says there's no point in revisiting the matter in another audit.
He says he's satisfied his office was not misled and came to the right conclusions about the fund in a report last spring.
The report concluded the Harper government kept Parliament in the dark when it diverted $50 million from a border infrastructure fund to create the legacy fund.
It also found that public servants were shut out of the process of selecting which projects would get money from the fund, set up to help the Parry Sound-Muskoka region host last year's G8 summit.
Thirty-two beautification projects were approved by John Baird, then infrastructure minister, based strictly on the recommendation of local MP Tony Clement, now Treasury Board president.
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