Posted AT 9:19 PM EDT on 06/05/07
Tory minister logs $149,389 of undeclared flights
Ottawa — Labour Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn spent almost $150,000 on rental aircraft flying around Quebec last year but didn't declare any of the flights as a travel expense, documents show.
In fact, the majority of the flights on privately hired planes don't show up in Mr. Blackburn's public disclosure of ministerial travel and were only revealed through an Access to Information request by NDP researchers.
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