The Leader of the Official Opposition is slamming the Liberal government for a housing allowance paid out to a Scotland-based consultant for his part-time residency in this province.
Ches Crosbie says the PCs have learned that Nalcor was billed over $10,000—including $6,796.99 for airfare—by Scotland-based consultant Gordon McIntosh for a conference sponsored by Aberdeen International Associates Limited. That company, Crosbie says, is owned by McIntosh and his son.
That comes on top of his $3,000 per month housing allowance for his part-time residency in St. John’s.
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Crosbie says that McIntosh was politically hired under an exclusive sole-sourced contract, which doubled his pay.
He claims that as result, they’ve discovered what appears to be yet another conflict of interest, after McIntosh billed travel and expenses on top of his lucrative contract to attend a conference that his company sponsors.
Crosbie asked, “While he’s down there doing his own conference, working with his son on behalf of his own company, what’s he doing for us?”
He believes that the facts will gradually come out, even if they need to be “pried out with a crowbar.”
Crosbie calls it another example of evidence of “gross mismanagement” by the Liberal government.
