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OTTAWA — Canada’s auditor general’s office is struggling to complete important work because it doesn’t have enough money, its latest financial report says.

The auditor general’s quarterly financial report, released Thursday, says funding for the office hasn’t been enough to keep up with “increasing audit and service cost pressures,” so audit-related work has been put off and some planned performance audits have been cancelled.

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Performance audits are the examinations of government programs and activities that can turn up slack practices and malfeasance and often grab headlines.

In early February, auditor general Michael Ferguson died and the office has been without a leader since. The office has been working with the Privy Council Office to appoint an interim replacement.

For 2018-2019, the government approved a budget of just over $78 million for the office, plus an increase of $7 million in the second quarter, but it hasn’t been enough to keep up with the office’s operations.