Welcome back, dear taxpayers. Another week, another trove of publicly disclosed expense reports from the federal government’s own proactive-disclosure portals. Let’s see where your money went.
London, England — the city that never stops attracting Canadian officials — was practically a satellite Ottawa this past March. Three members of the Secretariat of the National Security and Intelligence Comm...
The framing of government expenditure as "publicly disclosed expense reports" shifts the focus from the necessity of the spending to the accountability of the process. The pattern observed is the juxtaposition of high-cost, high-visibility activities, such as stakeholder engagement in major cities, against highly frugal individual expenses, particularly concerning meals and lodging. This contrast suggests a potential misalignment between the perceived necessity of high-level international engage...