Councillor defends business class flight to South Africa
An Ottawa city councillor justified billing taxpayers nearly $6,000 for business class on a flight to a conference South Africa, saying Monday that she needed to get up and move around on the journey.
Dianne Deans travelled to a conference in South Africa in 2012 as a board member of the troubled Housing Services Corp.
“It was a 17 1/2 hour flight,” Deans told the Toronto Sun. “I think you can appreciate with a really long flight like that you’ve got to get up and move around to stretch out.”
By contrast, another HSC board member flew to the conference at a cost of $2,199.
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