The New Democrat who has spent the most on travel of any MLA so far this fiscal year says there’s a good reason for the big tab.
Skeena MLA Robin Austin says about 19-thousand dollars worth of his 54-thousand dollar travel bill was for a trip to Sri Lanka.
“I was invited by speaker Bill Barisoff to join him in attending the Commonwealth parliamentary association conference in Sri Lanka, which actually is where my parents were born, so I know the country quite well.”
BIll Barisoff is also the speaker of the house who approved the extra travel expenditure.
It doesn’t appear he’s filed his own papers yet though as the trip is not reflected in his own expenses for the first half of the year.
Barisoff is not available for comment today.
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