MP's family has him flying high

Author: Scott Hennig 2010/05/26

Russ Hiebert, the Conservative MP for South Surrey -- White Rock -- Cloverdale, spent $637,093 on expenses during the 2008-09 fiscal year, much of it due to flight costs to take his wife and two children back and forth from Ottawa to home and to his other engagements during the six months of the year Parliament was in session.

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