Two more reveal spending, but few details on double-dippers
06.02.10
ALLOWED EXPENSES • $1,470 per month accommodation allowance for MLAs living 40 kilometres or more from Province House. No receipts required. Cabinet ministers who qualify get $1,700.
• $84 a day in expenses (no receipts required) when House is in session for premier, ministers, party leaders and out-of-town MLAs.
• $84 a day in expenses (no receipts required) for members of House committees or caucus when a meeting is held.
• Stipends of varying amounts for chairing committees. (For example, $3,090 a year for chairing internal economy board, standing committee on assembly matters, law amendments and public accounts.)
• Stipend of $2,060 a year for chairs of all other House committees.
• Party leaders get accommodations, meals, travel and incidentals up to $41,200 annually, plus a leased vehicle.
• House leaders and caucus chairs get $10,300 annual stipend.
• Constituency allowance of between $13,783 and $18,194 to cover costs of travel within constituency and mail-outs.
Source: TheChronicleHerald.ca
Percy Paris points out his frugality
07.02.10
AFTER A STRING of careful and/or scripted responses from most MLAs to last week’s expense brouhaha, Percy Paris offered this reaction on the scathing auditor general’s report.
"I said, ‘Phew. I’m not there.’ That was my first reaction, to be quite honest with you," said the economic and rural development minister.
Paris said he didn’t expect to have any of his expenses cited for excess, but one always wonders if there may have been a slip-up along the way.
The Waverley-Fall River- Beaver Bank MLA asked reporters if he could boast for a moment about his thriftiness. We, of course, obliged, and Paris recounted furnishing his constituency office with $350 worth of government-surplus items.
A paltry sum by most standards and an absolute pittance compared to colleague John MacDonell’s $13,445, spent on two custom-made oak desks, a bookcase and magazine rack.
Paris put on his spin doctor’s hat when asked what he thought about the expensive furniture.
Source: TheChronicleHerald.ca