{"id":913749,"date":"2026-09-29T06:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/913749\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T06:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:38:12","slug":"mayoral-candidate-dipika-damerla-calls-for-independent-auditor-general-in-mississauga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/913749\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayoral candidate Dipika Damerla calls for independent auditor general in Mississauga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With just a few weeks until voters head to the polls in the Mississauga municipal election, mayoral candidate Dipika Damerla is calling for the city to have an independent auditor general.<\/p>\n<p>Pointing to other major cities with an independent auditor general in Ontario, Damerla says this is something the city has needed for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the city staff is looking into complaints that are coming in about the city, there\u2019s some element of the Fox guarding the henhouse,\u201d Damerla said at a campaign stop on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier in March every Mississauga councillor\u00a0except Damerla voted against hiring an independent auditor general, opting instead to expand the city\u2019s audit department and open a fraud hotline.<\/p>\n<p>In response to Damerla\u2019s proposal, Alvin Tedjo\u2019s campaign says he long supported an auditor general and notes Damerla voted against studying the position.<\/p>\n<p>Bonnie Crombie, who is also in the race to become mayor of Mississauga, says she supports having an independent auditor general and called it a \u201cnecessary check\u201d on spending.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, incumbent Carolyn Parrish says council has strengthened oversight with new auditors, public access to the fraud hotline and citizen members on the audit committee. <\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Toronto as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=toronto.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790663892_963_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With just a few weeks until voters head to the polls in the Mississauga municipal election, mayoral candidate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194297],"tags":[49,48,55405],"class_list":["post-913749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mississauga","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mississauga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}