Saskatchewan’s latest quarterly financial reports show four employee-related losses of public funds at SaskPower, with two incidents occurring between April and June.
The losses were tabled with the legislature’s Public Accounts Committee and Crown and Central Agencies Committee, covering the first quarter of the 2025–26 fiscal year.
According to the report from the Provincial Comptroller, one SaskPower employee used a corporate procurement card to make personal purchases totalling $7,526 over a period spanning from November 2022 to April 2025. That individual has since been terminated and SaskPower is preparing to report the incident to law enforcement.
The Crown corporation says it has made changes to improve financial controls and monitoring.
In a separate incident on Feb. 21, a term employee removed a laptop from SaskPower against management direction. The $1,100 asset has not been recovered. The matter has been referred to the police.
Two additional losses, reported in earlier quarters, remain under resolution.
One of those involved more than $23,000 in improper spending on a procurement card and fuel card between November 2023 and October 2024. A former employee has signed a promissory note and is making repayments.
In the other case, an employee resigned after using a corporate procurement card for over $3,100 in personal purchases. SaskPower says it is working with the former employee to recover the funds.
Crown Investments Corporation and SaskPower say corrective measures have been implemented, including changes to internal audit processes and strengthened oversight of procurement card use.
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