A watchdog that focuses on government spending says Newfoundland and Labrador blew $40,000 in the dying days of the Liberal administration to cater to a luxury tour company.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation says records obtained by it show that the Department of Tourism gave a bureaucrat and four representatives of tour operator Entree Canada a five-day all-expense-paid trip, including helicopter, to the Torngat Mountains National Park three months ago.
The objective according to the federation was to develop a high-end tourism package, but the organization says nothing has come of it. The federation says Entree has yet to send a single tourist to the park.
Devin Drover, a lawyer and spokesperson for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (VOCM News)
Executive director Devin Drover says this is exactly why government should not be in the business of corporate welfare.
He’s urging the provincial government to review all discretionary tourism spending.