• Connect to CKNW
CKNW News Club
CKNW
NEWS
ON-AIR
SPORTS
EVENTS
PHOTOS & VIDEOS
CONTESTS
CONTACT US
Related Links

Skeena MLA has biggest travel bill
VICTORIA/CKNW (AM980)
Sean Leslie | Email news tips to Sean
1/31/2013

Taxpayers spent some 2.3 million dollars shuttling their MLA's around in the first nine months of the fiscal year.


So says an updated travel expense report on the legislative assembly website.


The highest biller was New Democrat MLA Robin Austin, who rang up 75-thousand dollars in travel.


Austin represents the distant Skeena riding.


Many of the highest bills are from MLA's in large and distant rural areas. 


NDP leader Adrian Dix billed for 51-thousand dollars in travel, while Premier Christy Clark's bill comes in at only 35-hundred dollars.


Much of the Premier's travel is paid for through her office, which shows that as of November,  Clark had spent 57-thousand on travel.

 «  Return to previous page
 »  Send to a friend
Subscribe to channel

Leave a comment:

showing all comments · Subscribe to comments
Comment Like
  • 15
  1. joes_2868 posted on 01/31/2013 03:48 PM
    And what do our three stooges say about this? Shortly we will see some major gasket blowing from Ken280, the readers consultant with a briefcase 50 miles away from home, bctaxpayer, and taxed to death, all putting the blame on the Liberals.
    1. taxed to death posted on 01/31/2013 05:13 PM
      @joes_2868 its easy to throw a number out to the public.In all fairness what is required is a breakdown of the billing to determine where money was spent and was it justified. Its impossible to comment otherwise
    2. Ken280 posted on 01/31/2013 06:26 PM
      @joes_2868 http://thetyee.ca/News/2013/01/18/Christy-Clark-Flights/
      Thumper Joe! what are you saying ?Just read this and then tell me is this another cost saving measure by the Liberals/Cons of the coalition. DUH! Here comes thumper Joe! from the good ship lollypops. gotcha he says! The blame is for what pray tell? Thumper, I really thought the Neanderthal extinction was a done deal now they left one of them behind and he is a Liberal/Con of the coalition! called Thumper Joe! Go NDP Go!
  2. LeonW posted on 01/31/2013 03:57 PM
    No shock CKNW missed this.

    http://thetyee.ca/News/2013/01/18/Christy-Clark-Flights/

    Clark racked up $250,000 in about year.
    1. Ken280 posted on 01/31/2013 06:27 PM
      @LeonW hehe you beat me too it thanks Go NDP Go
  3. joes_2868 posted on 01/31/2013 04:50 PM
    LeonW: Are you telling the readers that if you were in politics, it would be different? Yeah right!

    What is your comment going to be if Adrian Dix does form government, and the news headlines in B.C. in Dec 2013, will read:

    Adrian Dix spends $251,000 in 7 months for travel expenses.

    Allison Redford, premier of Alberta spent $151,000 on just two trips, one to London and one to India.

    It is called politics and you can be assured, you would do the same if given the chance, including Ken280, the readers consultant with a briefcase 50 miles away from home.

    Ken280, would also sneak in some personal expenses for the B.C. taxpayers to pay.

    There is nothing we common people can do about it!

    NDP, Green, Liberals, Conservative, etc. No difference.

    The present NDP opposition MLA's are having a great time. All of them have expenses to Sept 30, 2012 with totals higher than cabinet ministers.
    1. Ken280 posted on 01/31/2013 06:37 PM
      @joes_2868 No difference you are a hack pure and simple and a Neanderthal to boot! Old and dried out same old rhetoric! You make people here sick of the lies and decei,t you will lose you Old Thumper of mice and grouse! Go NDP Go!
    show more replies
  4. TonyB_0924 posted on 01/31/2013 05:00 PM
    and Christy spent ½ a million on her tax payer credit card in 6 month along with 12 million dollars to Bollywood let’s see the whole story not just the bro BC Lying Liberal point of view
  5. bctaxpayer posted on 01/31/2013 05:02 PM
    How about ALL the trips risky Clark and Pammy took ? you people who make up these stories please take a bit of math and learn to add. Risky Clark only spending 3500 $$$$ what a joke. I know risky spent 15 million $$$$$$ from BC tax payer's. Risky is Not to be trusted under any circumstances,none.
  6. AlfredO posted on 01/31/2013 05:04 PM
    I think they should limit the number of trips they can make to and from their respective ridings. It would force them to work harder and more efficiently. It would also set an example for the bureaucrats working under them. On another note, maybe they wouldn't be travelling so much if they were actually in the legislature. Anybody remember the last time this government actually sat? I would love to know, seems like a long time ago.
    1. commonsense posted on 01/31/2013 11:04 PM
      @AlfredO It's not always the amount of travel that creates the high cost, but when they decide to fly. You book in advance you often save more money than booking that very day.
  7. joes_2868 posted on 02/01/2013 09:05 AM
    Ken280: The readers consultant, a man with a briefcase 50 miles away from home!
    Time is running out for the magic figure of 49% plus.

    Remember your TEMPER EQUALS LION'S GATE HOSPITAL.
  8. Garp posted on 02/01/2013 01:10 PM
    Although I question the Liberals on many issues, this is the kind of thing the Auditor General should be concerned about. The media never gives all the facts. What seems initially outrageous may have a legitmate reason. You know what they say, the strongest opinions come from those with the least information!
showing all comments

More CKNW News Headlines 1 to 25 of 7737  
Abbotsford 22-year-old charged with child porn offences
Man who killed girlfriend, left body in West Van park gets four years
Canadian man missing in Mexico previously charged with drug offences
Harper speaks out on Senate scandal
Young man dies in crash on First Narrows Bridge
Emergency crews kept busy over long weekend
Abbotsford to face injection lawsuit
Former MLA claims to have the answers for NDP loss
Abbotsford Police investigating possible hit and run
27 year old man dead after collision on Lions Gate Bridge
Family of missing Coquitlam man disappointed by Canadian Consulate
B.C. on high alert for new coronavirus: health officer
Large search around Galiano turns up nothing
Two people recovering in hospital after a fall along Chehalis river
A Vancouver MP not shocked but concerned with the Senate expense scandal
Sea-to-Sky crash sends three people to hospital
Delta South's MLA disappointed she stands alone
NDP ethics critic says senate scandal undermines public's trust
Five years since death of Alexa Middelaer
Wheelchair-bound woman robbed in Agassiz: Husband pleads for her medications to be returned
Senate scandal claims PM's chief of staff
Surrey man missing for a week
Ahmadiyya Muslims gather in Delta for inauguration of mosque
Rob Ford's brother to respond to allegations on Tuesday
Safe Boating Awareness Week kicks off
read more