{"id":803717,"date":"2026-07-15T15:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/803717\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:24:08","slug":"doug-ford-government-looks-to-axe-rule-that-let-mpps-expense-hotel-stays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/803717\/","title":{"rendered":"Doug Ford government looks to axe rule that let MPPs expense hotel stays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 Ontario Premier Doug Ford\u2019s government is looking to eliminate a rule that lets members of provincial parliament who live in and near Toronto expense hotel stays in the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It comes after Tourism, Culture and Gaming Minister Stan Cho was heavily criticized Tuesday by opposition parties for billing taxpayers for more than $16,000 in Toronto hotel expenses since 2023 despite representing the north Toronto riding of Willowdale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He has promised to reimburse the full amount, even though his expenses met the criteria for special circumstances under the legislature\u2019s rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The legislature\u2019s website says a snowstorm is an example of an acceptable case for members who live within 50 kilometres of Queen\u2019s Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Government House Leader Steve Clark has written to the Speaker today, informing her he intends to eliminate the special circumstances rule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is asking the opposition parties for their agreement on it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 15, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Allison Jones, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Ontario Premier Doug Ford\u2019s government is looking to eliminate a rule that lets members of provincial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,11867,714,3302],"class_list":["post-803717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ontario-quebec","tag-politics","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}