High flight

Conservative cabinet minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn spent almost $150,000 on aircraft charters, yet filed expense claims showing no airfares for these trips.

Mais, bien sur.

Blackburn has merely slipped the surly bonds of earthly accountability for expenses.

In fact, the majority of the flights on privately hired planes don't show up anywhere in Mr. Blackburn's public disclosure of ministerial travel and were only revealed through an Access to Information request by NDP researchers.

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