Peter’s Excellent Adventure: Part I
Defence Minister Peter MacKay charged taxpayers $2,904 for a two-night stay at the luxurious Bayerischer Hof when he went to a security conference in Munich, Germany in February of 2010. MacKay arrived in Munich after attending an informal meeting of NATO defence ministers in Turkey, where he billed taxpayers $2,310 for a three-night stay at Istanbul’s Ceylon Intercontinental Hotel. At $1,452 and $770 a night respectively, these room tabs go far beyond what most taxpayers would consider reasonable.
In Munich, MacKay’s staff stayed at the Munich Park Hilton, an eight-minute cab ride away, for $239 a night. In Istanbul, MacKay’s staff stayed in the same hotel, but paid $276 per night.
Frommer’s travel guide lists the Bayerischer Hof first in its section of “very expensive” hotels in Central Munich. Fodor’s Travel Intelligence claims that that “King Ludwig I of Bavaria paid regular visits to take a royal bath,” there.
Clearly, the Defence Minster has some explaining to do.
Using Access to Information requests, the CTF has examined the details of the Minister’s spending since he took over at DND.
A detailed backgrounder of the CTF’s research can be found HERE.
More to follow.
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