CALGARY, AB: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) released its second annual ‘Naughty & Nice to Taxpayers List’ today. The list puts ministers, associate ministers and other government MLAs in ‘naughty’ and ‘nice’ categories based on their achievements for and knocks against taxpayers.

“The CTF has been making a list and checking it twice, and by keeping a close watch on the government, we know which of them has been naughty and which of them has been nice,” said CTF Alberta Director Derek Fildebrandt.

Membership on the list is determined mostly by policies and a CTF examination of expense claims filed at expenses.alberta.ca.

“Last year we filed Freedom of Information (FOI) requests for the expenses of cabinet ministers. Now Alberta has a nation-leading expense disclosure policy in place that allows us to examine the expenses of most senior government officials with relative ease,” continued Fildebrandt. 

Click here for this year’s complete ‘Naughty and Nice to Taxpayers List.’ 

Naughty List Highlights 

• Alison Redford
  o   $876/night hotel in Washington (x2)
  o   $22 coffees in Washington
  o   $7,875 flight to New Brunswick
  o   $6,092 flight to Chicago

• Doug Horner
  o   For giving children a lump of debt in their stocking

• Thomas Lukaszuk
  o   $9,090 airfare for European junket

• Mike Allen
  o   For, well… you know…

• Alana Delong
  o   For not posting a single receipt for her expense claims

Nice List Highlights

• Jonathan Denis
  o   For having the most boring expense claim two years running

• Don Scott
  o   For unveiling the new gold-standard of salary disclosure last Thursday with Alberta’s new government salary “sunshine list.”

• Wayne Drysdale
  o   Showing up his fellow ministers by spending only $179 for a hotel during Stampede when many were spending over $600 a night.

Click here for this year’s complete ‘Naughty and Nice to Taxpayers List.’

Click here for last year’s ‘Naughty and Nice to Taxpayers List.’

Update

• Premier Alison Redford's office has clairified that the $22 coffees expensed in Washington DC were pots.
• Fred Horne's receipts were posted at http://alberta.ca/travelandexpensedisclosure.cfm, but due to a government technical error, they were not included in the downloadable version of the data. As such, Fred Horne is no longer on the CTF's 'Naughty and Nice to Taxpayers List.'