Unbelievable but true. According to the Toronto Sun, the biggest tab was a $34,205 bill made by Bloc Quebecois MP Maria Mourani. She made calls from Lebanon for a month to "keep in touch."
Deepak Ohbrai, Conservative MP for Calgary East, spent $28,543 last year. Ohbrai said the high bill was due to his job as parliamentary secretary to the foreign affairs minister.
House of Commons Speaker Peter Milliken billed taxpayers just $4,308 for the year.
In 2004-05, the annual bill was only $491,024. That is less than one-seventh of the annual total now. Surely not all of this can be blamed on data fees for blackberries!
Is Canada Off Track?
Canada has problems. You see them at gas station. You see them at the grocery store. You see them on your taxes.
Is anyone listening to you to find out where you think Canada’s off track and what you think we could do to make things better?
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