Review calls for more transparency around expense program for former governors general Currently, the program allows former governors general to bill the government up to $206,040 annually for the rest of their lives
Author of the article: Brian Platt
Publishing date: Jan 26, 2021 • January 26, 2021 • 4 minute read • Newly sworn-in Governor General Julie Payette acknowledges applause in the Senate on October 2, 2017. With Payette s resignation last week over a workplace review scandal, the governor general expense program is back in the spotlight. Photo by Lars Hagberg/AFP via Getty Images/File
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OTTAWA The federal government should ensure more transparency around the expense program for former governors general, says an independent report ordered after the National Post reported on the issue in 2018.
For taxpayers, itâs even more shocking to know weâll have to keep paying her expenses.
Given the kind of behaviour allegedly outlined in the governmentâs report, Julie Payette had no real choice but to resign as governor general. Toxic management would never be tolerated in any other workplace. Itâs certainly unacceptable for the Queenâs representative in Canada.
Toxic work environment isnât the only issue with Payetteâs time at Rideau Hall
But a toxic work environment isnât the only issue with Payetteâs time at Rideau Hall.
Payette has never been a friend to taxpayers, racking up $65,000 in flights, meals and other expenses in her first a year and a half in office â more than fifty times more than her predecessor spent in the same time span. Her swearing-in ceremony cost taxpayers a whopping $649,000.
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Alberta’s NDP broke a party record and collected more cash than the governing UCP last year, according to numbers filed with Elections Alberta.
New Democrats and United Conservatives each raised just over $5 million in 2020, with the NDP ahead by $15,656.
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The NDP recorded its best effort ever outside of an election year by raising $2.3 million in the fourth quarter. At the end of the year, it had 17,009 donors 3,859 of whom were donating to the party for the first time.