Taxpayers taken for a ride with costly junkets, bar bills

Subhead:Access to Information records show Tom Clark’s expenses totaled $39,595, spanning 932 pages, with many expenses redacted, according to Blacklock’s.#

 

The Canadian Press / Justin Tang (left) and The Canadian Press / Sean Kilpatrick (right)

New York Consul Tom Clark billed thousands in expenses unrelated to Canadian trade promotion, including trips to examine Bermuda’s “high school culture” and an $1,800 Indigenous art luncheon.

“What I do is feed information, analysis and intelligence,” Clark testified last November 21 at the Commons government operations committee. “It’s my job to provide advice to the government,” he said.

Access to Information records show Clark’s expenses totaled $39,595, spanning 932 pages, with many expenses redacted, according to Blacklock’s. Expenses included a $503 lunch and a $9,555 trip to Bermuda.

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