Stephen Harper: living high on the hog

Stephen Harper gives new meaning to the expression, “living off the fat the land” and I’m not talking about the size of his substantial gut. Perhaps, I should phrase it, ”living high off the taxes of the people”. Must be a Conservative thing.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Labour Day-weekend trip to Manhattan last fall, which included coveted tickets to a New York Yankees game and a Broadway show, cost Canadian taxpayers at least $45,000, documents reveal.

Documents obtained under Access to Information reveal only some of the trip’s cost. They include $34,633 for the use of the Challenger Jet and another $11,026 for the expenses of four staffers who joined the prime minister during the private family trip.

However, government officials have declined to provide CBC News with other costs linked to the trip last September, such as expenses incurred by the prime minister, two more aides and a defence attaché who took part in the three-day excursion.

X-posted at Let Freedom Rain.