Metro Vancouver's $60K, 12-staff member trip to New Orleans preceded travel pause: chair

[Castanet News]

Metro Vancouver Regional District chair Mike Hurley said Friday that an estimated $60,000 trip for 12 staff members to a water conference in New Orleans...

[Phoenix2971]

What a great holiday they probably all had…shame

[Babba_not_Gump]

Are newly elected politicians ever told Its not your money?

This needs to be hammered into their heads every morning.

[Noshortageofdrivers]

Living the good life
On the backs of taxpayers
Just like Eby sitting around the round table, with his merry band of thieves with plates of food
While people are starving on our streets

[gengiskhan]

Scumbags

[wellcoboy]

just more snouts at the public trough feeding on there own good time ,hey castanet how about publishing travel expenses here in kelowna ? im sure the snouts at city hall have been milking these free taxpayer funded trips also... folks time to take back our cities from this trash and make them accountable ...just saying.

[dmschmidt]

off course it preceded it.
and even if it hadn't, they would have found some reason to go anyway.

It's a myth that government employees are answerable to the public.