Want to Reduce Dubious Expenses? Post the Receipts Online
It's time we force Senators, Members of Parliament and their staff to pay more attention to their expenses before they incur them by requiring physical expense receipts to be proactively scanned and posted online
By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director—— Bio and Archives--August 23, 2016
Canadian News, Opinion | Comments | Back To Full Article
(This column originally appeared in the Toronto Sun
Last week, news broke that federal Health Minister Jane Philpott had spent $1,700 on a high-end car service for a single day of driving her around the Toronto area. Her office then revealed there were more in the same vein: a $2,000 bill for a car on the day the minister spoke at a July meeting in Niagara Falls; $3,800 for 20 trips ($190 each) to Toronto's Pearson Airport before flying to Ottawa for ministerial business.
Worse still, Philpott knew the owner of the limousine company was a Liberal supporter who had volunteered on her election campaign. Within days, she had admitted this was unacceptable and agreed to repay taxpayers for the cost.
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