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TORONTO – Ontario’s Health Ministry took another hit Thursday when the Progressive Conservatives demanded to know why annual reports on the province’s public drug plan have been missing for five years.

The government is required by law to issue a report each year on the $4.4-billion program, but the most recent one available on the ministry’s website is from 2007-2008.

Tory Frank Klees cornered Health Minister Deb Matthews in the legislature, asking why the government hasn’t done its job.

Matthews is promising to find out why the reports are delayed.

She says she has been told that the ministry is close to tabling the reports for all the missing years.

But Klees says it’s clear that with the lack of oversight over diluted chemotherapy drugs, Ontario’s troubled air ambulance service, and the eHealth electronic medical records agency, Matthews isn’t doing her job.

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