WATCH: Dozens of New Democrat MPs are facing a hefty bill, after being ordered to pay back $2.75 million given to staffers working in satellite offices. Jacques Bourbeau reports.
TORONTO – Sixty-eight NDP MPs are being asked to repay $2.75 million they spent on staff at the party’s satellite offices as part of an employment sharing program.
In a statement issued Tuesday night, House Speaker and Chair of the Board of Internal Economy Andrew Scheer said the multi-party board agreed to invoice the MPs for the “inappropriate use of parliamentary resources” related to staff who were stationed in party offices in downtown Montreal and Quebec City.
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Scheer said those who participated in the shared employment arrangement “will be directed to reimburse, as a personal expense, all salary costs incurred from May 2, 2011 to December 31, 2014.”
NDP MP Nycole Turmel, a spokesperson for the BOIE, released a separate statement Tuesday evening denouncing the decision.
Turmel added the decision was intended to “create leverage against the MPs cited by the Board of Internal Economy – whether they be New Democrats, Forces et Démocratie, Bloc Québécois or independent.”
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