The heat on Canadian Privacy Commissioner continues to escalate as reports now indicate that together with an executive assistant he spent $500,000 on travel and hospitality over the past two years. The figures apparently includes tens of thousands of dollars on lunches where the Commissioner both submitted and approved the expenses. The Commissioner claims that he used the lunches to concentrate on working on speeches. see: Coverage here also see: And here
Canadian Privacy Commissioner Spent $500,000 Over Two Years
June 18, 2003
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