Entitled to his entitlements

[Locutus]

Andrew Leslie, defence policy adviser to Justin Trudeau and 2015 Liberal candidate.



One of Canada’s most high-profile military leaders claimed more than $72,000 in expenses, including real estate fees, for a move from his Ottawa home to another residence in the city after he retired, CTV News has learned.

Documents obtained by CTV News show retired general Andrew Leslie, who once led Canada’s mission in Afghanistan, claimed the expenses for a move in 2012.

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Leslie made headlines in 2011 when he told the Harper government in a landmark report that the Department of National Defence needed to take an axe to its bloated headquarters in order to meet future obligations.


CTV Exclusive: Retired general claimed $72K in expenses for move within Ottawa | CTV News

h/t sda

 

[grissyboy]

General Leslie Moving Expenses

This is a joke, right? This wanna be a politician person replies he has done nothing wrong in billing the dumb *** taxpayers (you & me), $73,000 for moving a few blocks. Well whoopee ding all to hell. Money for moving is supposed to for veterans making one last move to "Better their lives". Since when Mr. Leslie does moving down the road to a more expensive house have anything do do with the concept of receiving this money. Give your head a shake General. Nobody, I mean nobody is buying this. Now we have the Liberals defending this guy. How much you wanna bet he gets his *** kicked when he runs for office. Us dumb *** taxpayers are fed up with this kind of crap.

 

[DaSleeper]

Re: General Leslie Moving Expenses

Check Déja-Vu

 

[Machjo]

Re: General Leslie Moving Expenses

This is a joke, right? This wanna be a politician person replies he has done nothing wrong in billing the dumb *** taxpayers (you & me), $73,000 for moving a few blocks. Well whoopee ding all to hell. Money for moving is supposed to for veterans making one last move to "Better their lives". Since when Mr. Leslie does moving down the road to a more expensive house have anything do do with the concept of receiving this money. Give your head a shake General. Nobody, I mean nobody is buying this. Now we have the Liberals defending this guy. How much you wanna bet he gets his *** kicked when he runs for office. Us dumb *** taxpayers are fed up with this kind of crap.

To be fair though, if everything was kosher, then should the government not review the rules on this?

 

[El Barto]

Re: General Leslie Moving Expenses

The sadder part is apparently this is all within the rules and limits for this expenses. I agree with Machjo.
Hell I am sure we would be outraged if we saw all the legal privileges these people have.

 

[Machjo]

Re: General Leslie Moving Expenses

The sadder part is apparently this is all within the rules and limits for this expenses. I agree with Machjo.
Hell I am sure we would be outraged if we saw all the legal privileges these people have.

At the same time though, if you have legal rights to certain privileges in a job, normally you'll take advantage of them within the rules. I would have done the same thing, so Leslie is not to blame here; the rules are.

 

[El Barto]

Re: General Leslie Moving Expenses

At the same time though, if you have legal rights to certain privileges in a job, normally you'll take advantage of them within the rules. I would have done the same thing, so Leslie is not to blame here; the rules are.

Exactly , so instead of having the Conservatives point finger and blame they could step in and tighten the rules. I bet this is welcome news for them tho , to take the heat over the senator thing that is stuck on them.


That is the difference between Politics and Governing.
Verbal dancing around the issues instead of fixing the actual problem sensibly.


I would want some sort of law or rule that all government expenses be transparent and detailed for the public viewing.
That said who would take the time to view it?

 

[petros]

Re: General Leslie Moving Expenses

$73K? Whatever happened to a couple buddies, a case of beer and some steaks?

 

[DaSleeper]

Re: General Leslie Moving Expenses

$73K? Whatever happened to a couple buddies, a case of beer and some steaks?

Beer goes good with take-out pizza...and no cooking...

 

[petros]

Re: General Leslie Moving Expenses

Beer goes good with take-out pizza...and no cooking...

Point taken.

 

[El Barto]

Re: General Leslie Moving Expenses

For this price it must be all dressed pizza with Caviar extra

 

[pgs]

Re: General Leslie Moving Expenses

For this price it must be all dressed pizza with Caviar extra

but of course he is a liberal and entitled to his entitlements .

 

[El Barto]

Re: General Leslie Moving Expenses

but of course he is a liberal and entitled to his entitlements .

apparently if you can look past left and right you will see this is pretty common among any who join the Government......Cracks like that only come from blind rhetoric's

 

[captain morgan]

Re: General Leslie Moving Expenses

This issue will get hot enough such that the actual cost (ie invoice) will be analyzed and things will (or won't) move from there.

73k to move one household within the same community will be almost impossible to justify when a comparative cost analysis is done

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Re: General Leslie Moving Expenses

apparently if you can look past left and right

Yeah, that'll happen.

 

[Machjo]

Re: General Leslie Moving Expenses

This issue will get hot enough such that the actual cost (ie invoice) will be analyzed and things will (or won't) move from there.

73k to move one household within the same community will be almost impossible to justify when a comparative cost analysis is done

Another detail to consider. Did he spend the money and DND reimbursed him, or did DND spend the money directly?

 

[BornRuff]

Re: General Leslie Moving Expenses

Funny that this would come out right before he speaks at the Liberal convention.

Too bad you left out the little detail about how he didn't bill anyone for anything. The DND makes all of the arrangements so they are in control of all of that.

The main part of this cost is that they pay the Realtor fees. Since commission is often around 5% total, that is 50k on a million dollar home. Given house prices in some cities, I'm sure they have had to pay fees on lots of homes around that price.

 

[petros]

I'm entitled. I'm entitled to everything I earned and will earn.

 

[Cannuck]

Like everyone else on the government titt, he's entitled to his entitlements

 

[petros]

Only the elected and appointed make it to the teat. The rest get slop.