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February 24, 2021 - 7:00 AM Expense claims and credit card receipts incurred by senior bureaucrats should be posted online to prevent wasteful spending, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation says. “If you’re some bureaucrat and you’ve got the taxpayers’ credit card in your hand, are you really going to buy a $100 gift certificate at the local liquor store on it, when you know it’s going to be posted on the internet?” Kris Sims, the B.C. director for the federation said. “I doubt it.” She was reacting to a series of articles published after months of research by Kamloops This Week reporter Jessica Wallace detailing huge credit card spending by Sukh Gill over his last five years as CAO of the Thompson Nicola Regional District. ....
Strengthen the office of the Municipal Auditor General. Require all of the B.C. legislature to be subject to Freedom of Information law. “B.C. drivers should have gotten ICBC rebates in the spring when drivers in other provinces got hundreds of dollars back and the government shouldn’t be trying to douse the ICBC dumpster fire by screwing drivers out of their own money during the lockdowns,” said Sims. “Horgan knows the carbon tax is unaffordable since he paused the tax hike in April, so he should go all the way and scrap this tax altogether.” The Taxpayers’ Federation is also urging the government to bolster accountability in the province. ....