The Doug Ford government says it has sent the Ontario Provincial Police the results of a forensic audit scrutinizing a company that received about $40-million from the province – including millions from a controversial worker-training fund.

The Office of the Premier also said the government is reviewing all payments made to the company and could take further action.

Organizations that won millions of dollars in grants from an Ontario worker training program at the centre of a political storm have increasingly hired professional lobbyists over the past five years, including several government-relations firms with close ties to Premier Doug Ford.

According to an analysis by The Globe and Mail, the proportion of companies, unions and other groups that received cash from the Skills Development Fund and hired lobbyists shot up 60 per cent since the program was launched in 2021.