Why MPs should reveal their expenses
Update:
MPs relent and say they will now allow Auditor General Sheila Fraser to audit "some" of the MPs' expenses. Fraser will only be able to do spot audits and will not be allowed to release names.
The CTF's petition drive to have MP expenses revealed is getting attention. Here is some of the media we have received so far.
- Global video on CTF pigs on Parliament Hill (Global National, June 15, 2010)
- CTV video on CTF Pig Brigade (CTV News, June 15, 2010)
- Secretive MPs should follow Toronto's lead on expenses (Toronto Sun, May 18)
- CTV Newsnet interview (May 15)
- "MPs' refusal of expense audit prompts the question: 'What are they hiding?'" (Vancouver Sun, May 15)
Other CTF content on this issue
- Taxpayer Federation to push MPs to publicize spending (Montreal Gazetter, June 8, 2010)
- End MP Foxes Guarding Chicken Expense Coop (Commentary also published in Toronto Sun, May 18)
- MB: Judy –Transparency Talk Nice, About That $2,046,962 (News release, May 5)
- FED: Are Taxpayers Paying for MPs' Moats or Toothbrushes? (Commentary & video, July 24, 2009)
- Tip to Sun: Senator bills taxpayers for Florida condo (Blog post, April 26)
- East Coast Lessons for Ottawa (Blog post, March 30)
- Facts in this Fiction? (Blog post, March 10)
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Comments
Canadian Politicians ...
Remember the words of Henry Kissinger:
"Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad name".
Some of the words that spring to my mind when I think about our politicians: Liars, hypocrits, evasive, double standards, a sense of entitlement, total disconnects from the interests and needs of the average citizen, condescension, exaggerated sense of self-worth, untrustworthy, broken promises, dishonest, self-serving, "one rule for me, another for you", fat-cat perks, …
Montreal Gazetter, June 8, 2010
This is really good news. I'm sure all MP's and Seanator's are scrambling to try to cover up all there wrongs. The more time we give them, the more they will cover. let's keep on them. I just hope that Shelia fraser does not concede to a PARTIAL Audit, which I'm sure she will not.
This really smells, in veiw of this artical.
Can thet audit back as far as 2000? I hope so, and do so.
Why MPs should reveal their expenses
I concerned that there dosen't seam to any new media coverage of this very important matter. Any thing happening?
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