Two of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s most trusted advisers are repaying more than $65,000 in “unreasonable” expenses after the Liberal government controversially approved $207,052.11 to cover the cost of moving the pair from Toronto to Ottawa.
Trudeau’s principal secretary Gerald Butts posted a statement on Facebook Thursday evening, saying that his initial claim of $126,669.56 and Trudeau’s chief of staff Katie Telford’s claim of $80,382.55 contained unreasonable charges.
Telford claimed:
- Moving logistics: $10,735.50
- Real estate commission, fees and employer taxes: $44,149.40
- Personalized cash payout and incidentals: $23,373.71
- Administration fees: $1,577.94
- Travel: $546
Butts claimed:
- Moving logistics: $14,636.39
- Real estate commission, fees and employer taxes: $47,103.56
- Personalized cash and incidentals: $20,799.10
- Land transfer tax, legal fees and insurance: $25,141.31
- Temporary rental lodging (apartment): $18,247.60
- Administration fees: $468.60
- Travel: $273
The statement goes on to say that both staffers now consider the “personalized cash and incidentals” they charged were inappropriate and will be reimbursed in full.
Blaine Calkins, Conservative critic for ethics, said Trudeau still needs to explain to Canadians why he gave taxpayer money to his two staffers in the first place.
“The fact is, Conservatives caught the prime minister’s friends with their hands in the cookie jar. They would have gotten away with this without Conservatives acting as the taxpayers’ watchdog,” said Calkins.
“This outrageous abuse of public funds is unacceptable and taxpayers won’t stand for it,” he added.
Oink, Oink, Wallow, Wallow, Oink, Oink! It is the Liberal way! …Whoever voted for these fucking pigs is a fucking idiot!
That’s funny… if I were to pilfer the coffers like these corrupt leeches I’d be fired and would be before a judge.
The only “reasonable” expense us taxpayers should be on the hook for is their incarceration.
Liberals are the worst variety of leeches on Earth.
I think Butts gave it to the taxpayers up the butt ……wonder what other scams Jugnuts has approved without getting caught ?????
Well parliament is out now they say until after the October election so keep an eye on Trudeau. He has a whole summer left for holidaying in exotic places.
On private jets.
That’s not the only one he gave it to up the butt. Just ask Justine.
This is just the time they got caught, Goose. There are other thefts going on. They’re pigs!
I guess poor little Butt(s)wipe didn’t want to use any of the 20 million he has sitting in the bank…
Now you start to find out the real reason little gerry got out of Dodge City. Crooked cockslucker. Milking us big time. Little Castro backs his play and then gives him a job cleaning toilets right across from the PMO. Oh. And paid for by SNC? The crooked shit never ends with those baglickers. Where are you unknownpeeperpuller? PMO bullshit right from the getgo. Let’s get on with it. Let’s find it all out….
Check under all the rocks for @✠ɦ€µȠϏпѺωῄṤȽƐɛƥΣŗ:disqus . He’s under one of them.
Don’t you wonder if he’s not little gerry? His PMO bullshit is world class. You sure wonder….
he was too busy upvoting my “word of the day” in TWF…. a safe place for him to hide….
Did those two swear under oath to these expenses? little gerry won’t swear to anything so how can we be absolutely sure that his expenses are reasonable. He probably double billed us and we won’t know as he won’t swear to anything that slimy prick.
Typical Liberal government policy it appears ,rip the honest taxpayers off ….