Health Minister Quits

Ontario's Health Minister David Caplan has quit just hours before the auditor general releases his report on how the province spent a billion dollars trying to create electronic health records.

Auditor General Jim McCarter was asked to investigate e-Health Ontario last June amid reports about millions of dollars in untendered contracts given to consultants.

The opposition have been calling for Caplan's head since the details of excessive spending at e-Health surfaced.