PC Leadership Hopeful Lukaszuk to Audit Cabinet Ministers

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Progressive Conservative leadership candidate, Thomas Lukaszuk, has declared his intention to invite the province’s auditor general to investigate the travel and expense records of all cabinet ministers. The decision was made on Monday, after it was revealed that Mr. Lukaszuk recently paid back the province for taking his daughter on government flights.

Explaining his actions, Lukaszuk elucidated that he proactively and quietly wrote the province a cheque last month for about $1,400 to reimburse the costs of his daughter’s seat on three government plane rides between 2007 and 2012, although they were strictly for business. He mentioned that “I said to myself that if there is anything that would undermine my credibility or my integrity, I want it squared off and that’s why I cut the cheque.” It was added that “even though it is really beyond reproach and I’m sure auditor general would say so, I don’t want any shadows of doubt cast over me,” adding that “but if my cutting of the cheque is setting an example, boy, there will be a lot of very large cheques cut (by other ministers).”

Furthermore, Lukaszuk stressed that “I wrote a letter to the premier that said in view of the fact you have to develop rules and I don’t know what side of the issue you are going to land on, here’s my cheque because I want to be done with this garbage.” He concluded that “that’s why I’m asking the auditor general to audit all of us thoroughly.”

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