Editing Supervised injection site (section)

==== Financial impropriety by SCS service providers ====
An audit of Lethbridge ARCHES SCS by accounting firm Deloitte, ordered by the Alberta provincial government, found the SCS had $1.6 million in unaccounted funds between 2017 and 2018; additionally they found that led{{clarify|date=October 2024}} $342,943 of grant funds had been expended on senior executive compensation despite the grant agreement allowing only $80,000. Beyond this, an additional $13,000 was spent on parties, staff retreats, entertainment and gift cards,<ref name=":2" /> and numerous other inappropriate expenditures.<ref name=":2" />

The Lethbridge Police Service and Alberta Justice Specialized Prosecutions Branch later contradicted these findings, stating that all funds were present and accounted for in accounts belonging to the agency. When asked why these funds had previously been reported as missing, LPS Acting Inspector Pete Christos stated that the initial auditors did not have the means to investigate the agency's finances, and that all spending had been accounted for during the criminal probe.

Premier [[Jason Kenney]] did not dispute the results of the investigation, but declined to reinstate funding, claiming that the site's management had lost the confidence of his government.<ref name=":LPSfunds" />