The Alberta government is on the hunt for a new auditor general, but the Opposition NDP says they’re forcing him out before he finishes investigating a health-care contracting scandal.

Auditor general Doug Wylie has been looking into health contract procurement processes following allegations of corruption by a former head of Alberta Health Services earlier this year.

The allegations haven’t been proven in court, and a government-commissioned report found no evidence of wrongful interference from Premier Danielle Smith, her ministers or staff.

With his eight-year term set to expire in April, Wylie offered to stay on for an extra two years to finish what he started.

But United Conservative Party members of a legislature committee used their majority Monday to request that a search commi

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