Canadian Senators travel Air Canada business class between Ottawa and Toronto
May 9, 2017, 10:59 pm
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I read this as Ottawa Senators travel Air Canada Business Class between Ottawa and Toronto.
I was thinking to myself.........why are they flying regularly scheduled flights on game day and how did they fit 21 hockey players, the owner, the coachs and anyone else into business class on that airplane?
I had to google his name but I figure that Mike Duffy guy who was in the news all the time a few years ago would be one senator everyone in economy would be happy to see in business. Seats are tight enough............
I was thinking to myself.........why are they flying regularly scheduled flights on game day and how did they fit 21 hockey players, the owner, the coachs and anyone else into business class on that airplane?
I had to google his name but I figure that Mike Duffy guy who was in the news all the time a few years ago would be one senator everyone in economy would be happy to see in business. Seats are tight enough............
May 9, 2017, 11:29 pm
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I find there are almost none of those types in actuality. Let's not forget the Reform Party candidates turned MPs who pledged not to accept a government pension, and then they became among some of the richest pension payouts on retirement.
May 10, 2017, 1:15 am
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If anything, the senators should have the Air Canada banana bread outlawed on the morning YYZYOWs. Tarred and feathered. Jabroni bread.
May 10, 2017, 6:28 am
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May 10, 2017, 7:52 am
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And this guy is hardly different. Token gestures like four hours of supreme sacrifice in economy (preferred of course) mean little when one examines the various business dealings and self-enrichment schemes in which he enthusiastically participated.
May 10, 2017, 8:21 pm
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Let's talk about the policy.
Maybe because they set their own rules, are unelected and hence unaccountable - albeit tone-deaf.
May 10, 2017, 8:29 pm
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Now if the policy is correct or not, that's a whole different conversation....
May 10, 2017, 8:58 pm
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There are a lot more public servants(this is the correct term in my country not degrading) that have the whole J for 3+ hour flights. Some positions I don't even know why they get that at all, not saying that some line of work is bad but really? He gets 3 hour J doing that and some others don't doing this type of deal.
May 15, 2017, 4:17 pm
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I have a friend who is a senior federal bureaucrat, based in Vancouver.
She travels around BC fairly regularly, but there is almost never travel budget to bring her to Ottawa to meet with the rest of her team.
All her travel is required to be Tango - As a result she has no status. Ditto with her peers in Ottawa. They all fly Tango.
(Obviously she's not an MP or Senator.)
She travels around BC fairly regularly, but there is almost never travel budget to bring her to Ottawa to meet with the rest of her team.
All her travel is required to be Tango - As a result she has no status. Ditto with her peers in Ottawa. They all fly Tango.
(Obviously she's not an MP or Senator.)
May 15, 2017, 7:16 pm
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