What the hell is so important that this guy can't take a regularly scheduled flight?Can't do job ‘by bicycle' says Blackburn
BRUCE CHEADLE
Canadian Press
May 7, 2007 at 7:56 PM EDT
Ottawa — Federal Labour Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn said Monday he can't do his job “by bicycle” but could not explain why his ministerial travel expenses failed to disclose a penny of almost $150,000 worth of charter flights last year.
The Conservatives have made a virtue of their ministerial frugality since taking office, but opposition MPs are now crying foul saying the government is simply hiding such expenses in different books.
Mr. Blackburn used the rental planes to tour Quebec as the regional economic development minister for Prime Minister Stephen Harper. But only eight of some 25 flights appeared in his quarterly “proactive disclosure” of expenses last year, and all eight listed air fare as zero.
Those eight flights alone actually cost taxpayers more than $93,000.
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