Premier Selinger Now Engulfed in Winnipeg Jets Ticket Scandal

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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In the midst of a caucus revolt, Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger has engulfed himself in even more controversy as he admitted on Wednesday to have gone to a Winnipeg Jets game in 2011 with a ticket he didn’t pay for directly. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s Colin Craig admitted that “a lot of people have been surprised that the premier wasn’t up front when this all blew up a couple of years ago.”

It was explained that Selinger was invited to the Jets game against the Kings at the MTS Centre on Dec. 29, 2011, by a Saskatchewan cabinet minister, Ken Cheveldayoff, and brother of Jets’ general manager, Kevin Cheveldayoff. Cheveldayoff confirmed over the phone that “we each paid for our own ticket — he had his own ticket and paid for it himself.” However, the situation has now turned out to be different as Selinger confessed that he tried to pay but his money was refused. Selinger claims to have made a $300 donation to a housing charity a month after the game in lieu of paying for the ticket. However that’s not what he told the legislature in 2012.

Upon inquiry by then-Tory leader, Hugh McFadyen, Selinger was asked “so did the premier directly purchase his tickets, then, from Jets box office?” and he replied “I directly purchased my own tickets, yes.” McFadyen further confirmed that “and were they purchased directly from the jets organization?” to which Selinger confidently added “yes.”

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