Governor General Mary Simon spent $90,615 for a five-day tour of her hometown, Kangiqsualujjuaq, Que., and surrounding region.
Kangiqsualujjuaq is in the remote Nunavik region, and travel there is challenging, cabinet said in an Inquiry of Ministry reviewed by Blacklock’s Reporter. More than half the budget, almost $66,000, was spent on charter aircraft.
Simon came under fire late last year when it came to light that her delegation spent $1.3 million on an eight-day trip to Dubai in 2020.
“Can the governor general prove that spending $1.3 million to go to Expo 2020 in Dubai was a better use of taxpayers’ money than hiring more nurses or helping struggling taxpayers?” Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) director Franco Terrazzano said in a release at the time….