[Newsbot]

Title: MPs defend foreign travel sponsored by lobbyists
Category: Political
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2010-04-03 11:53:57
Canadian

[saturn_656]

They really can't win. Travel on the taxpayers dime and they are called wasteful. Travel on someone elses dime and they are taking bribes.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

$1:

But as Liberal MP Bob Rae points out, sponsored travel is often the only way MPs can gain international experience.

Yeah, those $100K+ salaries and tax free spending allowances, free meals, free transporation etc, just don't go as far as they used to eh?

[bootlegga]

$1:

Rookie Conservative MP Shelly Glover says her trip to Israel gave her a better grasp of the issues in the Middle East. Glover took two lobby-sponsored trips in 2009, one to Israel and the other to Taiwan. She brought her husband with her on both trips.

Apparently she's never heard of a book...

[SprCForr]

Or interviewing members of our Embassy when they return, etc etc.

[DrCaleb]

Didn't the Conservatives enact limits on corporate donations to political parties to try to end this sort of corruption?