Minister of Culture Madeleine Meilleur delivered the one-time bailout yesterday and told the board to bolster its financial controls and review its strategies.

"This funding comes with the understanding that the RBG will make significant enhancements to its financial systems and controls," she said.

The minister made no promises for future help.

Nor would she discuss the contents of a consultant's report her ministry commissioned, which outlines what went wrong at the Royal Botanical Gardens and what should be done to fix it.

"We are not here to point fingers," she said.

The ministry has "full confidence the RBG will put the necessary financial controls in place," she said.

RBG board chair Grant Walsh said that the board received the report a half-hour before the minister's announcement and would have to study it before making a decision whether to release its contents. Source.

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