Selinger government spent over $20,000 on State of Province address: Tories
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Manitoba Tories say they have the documents to prove that provincial taxpayers and Crown corporations shelled out more than $20,000 in luncheon fees and sponsorships in support of Premier Greg Selinger’s State of the Province address in December.
The Progressive Conservatives say they have obtained new information through provincial freedom of information legislation that shows the cost was much higher than the $4,500 they initially estimated.
Originally, they learned that 45 government employees attended the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce-sponsored event at a cost of about $4,500.
Conservative MLA Shannon Martin (Morris) accused the government of stacking the event at a time the premier was fighting to keep his job as leader of the NDP.
The State of the Province luncheons generally draw between 800 and 1,000 people.
“The final NDP lunch bill paid by Manitobans has cleared the $20,000 mark. Our original search for information found a smaller number. The NDP had an opportunity to come clean, but instead forced us to file more access to information requests to expose the truth,” Martin said in a news release.
