For Butts and Telford, hindsight is 20/20, and also convenient

[Locutus]

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fukk these 2 scumbags

Katie and Gerry want you to know that they are sorry for what they did. The two – Katie Telford, chief of staff to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Gerald Butts, principal secretary to Mr. Trudeau – co-wrote an admirably detailed message on Facebook last week explaining why they helped themselves to more than $200,000 in paid expenses to cover the costs of moving from Toronto to Ottawa, and why they suddenly decided to return large portions of the money.

“We take full responsibility for this having happened and because of that we are sorry,” they wrote. “We’ve learned a lot of lessons over the past few days, and we commit to continuing to improve transparency in the future.”

The message was signed, “Katie and Gerry.” For Liberal partisans, it was a folksy act of contrition that was all the more noble for having been unnecessary. Why shouldn’t the moving expenses of two Liberal Party heroes – the man and woman perhaps most responsible for Mr. Trudeau’s surprise election – be reimbursed down to the last penny, they argued. After all, the rules allow it.


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For Butts and Telford, hindsight is 20/20, and also convenient - The Globe and Mail

 

[Danbones]

200,000?
Not a lot really compared to the trillions given to certain scumbag bankers by certain scumbag politicians
and of course at decimals to dollars, with the exchange, its an even smaller problem

While it's nice they self regulated, and if they did a guilty then pay up, but what about the ones that don't, and don't?

"The Corruption Perceptions Index ranks Canada in the top 10 least corrupt countries in the world.[1] However, in recent years, corruption is increasingly a problem in government, industry and non-governmental organizations. ...
... Canada also ranks at the bottom of the bribery-fighting rankings, "with little or no enforcement of anti-bribery measures".[3] The 2014 Ernst & Young global fraud survey found that "twenty percent of Canadian executives believe bribery and corruption are widespread in this country".[4] According to a study by the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan, "a large proportion of Canadians see their politicians and their institutions as fundamentally corrupt"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Canada

Speaking of theft
Just look at the non denominational beaurocraps who just do NOTHING to earn their salaries and benefits, and the example they set for junior beaurocraps, who just follow suits and belly right on up to the salary for nothing trough too.

 

[Jinentonix]

$200,000 to move a few miles up the 401? Are you freakin' kidding me? Chee-rist, I've moved to about 15 different cities, towns and small communities and I know I didn't spend anywhere near that on all those moves combined. Like seriously, did these morons hire a moving van for each individual piece of furniture or something?

 

[Curious Cdn]

That's the Natural Governing Party sense of entitlement that we all know and love.

 

[petros]

Not a lot really compared to the trillions given to certain scumbag bankers by certain scumbag politicians

What do you mean? Bankers create money out of thin air. They don't need Govt.

Keep up on your own conspiracy theories.