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MPs' expenses: Will the auditor general get access to MPs' expenses?
- May 25, 2010 11:03 AM |
- By POV
Nova Scotia politicians mired in an expense scandal are urging their federal counterparts to stop blocking an audit of their spending habits.
Bill Estabrooks, Nova Scotia's NDP energy minister, says the members of Parliament who sit on the all-party internal economy board were wrong to deny the federal auditor general's request to submit MPs' expenses to a performance audit.
"They would do themselves a big favour if they said, 'I've got nothing to hide. Come in and have a look at how I spent the taxpayers' money,"' Estabrooks says, adding that the process was painful but necessary in Nova Scotia.
"We've learned that lesson in Nova Scotia. Some of us learned it the hard way."
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Bill Estabrooks, Nova Scotia's NDP energy minister, says the members of Parliament who sit on the all-party internal economy board were wrong to deny the federal auditor general's request to submit MPs' expenses to a performance audit.
"They would do themselves a big favour if they said, 'I've got nothing to hide. Come in and have a look at how I spent the taxpayers' money,"' Estabrooks says, adding that the process was painful but necessary in Nova Scotia.
"We've learned that lesson in Nova Scotia. Some of us learned it the hard way."
Read more:
Why do you believe there is so much reluctance by MPs' to have their spending audited by the auditor general? Take our poll.
(This poll is not scientific. It is based on readers' votes.)
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