Ministers, PMO staffers get $1.1M in expenses for relocating to Ottawa
OTTAWA — Taxpayers forked out $1.1 million to move some four dozen political staffers to Ottawa after Justin Trudeau’s Liberals won power last fall.
That includes just over $220,000 in relocation expenses for five staffers in the Prime Minister’s Office, just one of whom racked up almost $127,000 for “moving services.”
Taxpayers have also paid out $27,000 to design, produce, edit and upload videos of Trudeau to the prime minister’s YouTube channel.
The expenses were disclosed by the government in response to Opposition questions on the order paper.