A Canadian government-commissioned Deloitte healthcare report that cost one province nearly $1.6 million contains potentially AI-generated errors, marking the second country this year to fall victim to the consulting firm’s fact-checking shortcomings.

The errors—found in an investigation published Saturday by The Independent, a progressive Canadian news outlet covering the country’s easternmost province Newfoundland and Labrador—appear in a 526-page report that was disseminated by its government in May.

The report advised the then Liberal-led government’s Department of Health and Community Services on topics including virtual care, retention incentives, and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers during a time when the province’s healthcare sector is facing nurse and d

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