Help the CTF

with dingwall having resigned, it's time we spotted more waste. do so by gleaning the expense report site. for more details check out the CTF's call to help.

my personal contribution to this cause was made a couple of days ago.

my finding, which I emailed to david maclean:

David, I did some digging while at work last night and I came up with this one, which irked me.

Stephane Dion, Minister of the Environment.

"Atlantic tour". Feb 18-19, 2005.

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Flight to Halifax and back (I can only assume from Ottawa): $4218.86.

I did a search of the **most expensive** short-notice return flight from Ottawa to Halifax on Air Monopoly, and the price I came up with was, after taxes, $1882.23.

There's something seriously wrong there.

First off, he doesn't **have** to fly executive class. That's just extravagant, especially with my tax dollars. I just did a quick search on Tango, and I came up with, get this:

$298.63.

Ludicrous.

I was looking around and found a few examples like this, but this was the most obscene.

A second poking around found Ujjal Dosanjh going to India and Sri Lanka after the tsunami. Taking along a gaggle of assistants, one of the trips cost us (just for Ujjal) $6198.46 for airfare, and add-ons brought it up to over $7500. "Ministerial travel" is what this one is called.

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He also took along Robert Fry, at a cost of over $8000

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and Ken Polk, for over $12000

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They then repeated the trip, but this time to **China** and India.

Ujjal, over $12000

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Robert Fry, over $7000

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Joseph Li, over $6500

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Jonathan Moser, $5000

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Ken Polk, nearly $6500

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and Ramesh Singal, over $10500

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Total this up and for 2 trips for these people we paid about $75000.

This is disgusting.

Dave, Winnipeg