OTTAWA - New documents show a junior cabinet minister and his entourage racked up $35,000 in expenses over six weeks as part of the government's Red Tape Reduction Commission.Receipts and expense forms show Conservative MP Rob Moore and his staff accounted for well over half the travel and hospitality costs incurred by MPs on the commission.
The group was set up to look at the burden on businesses of complying with government regulations.
Travel and hospitality costs for the six Conservative MPs on the commission — including Moore and three of his aides — totalled $60,000.
The documents also show Treasury Board bureaucrats questioned why a limousine was needed to take Tory MP Cathy McLeod on a short trip to the airport.
An aide explained McLeod took an 11-minute ride to the Winnipeg airport in a luxury vehicle because her flight was late and she needed to get to Toronto for an event with the prime minister.
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