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Itâs obscene that Mr. Knight-Legg is living a life of luxury at those same familiesâ expense.
David Knight-Legg, principal adviser to Premier Jason Kenney, has billed Alberta taxpayers for even more luxury travel expenses in the past six months. Or stay at home and save, say, $5,000?Yes, there are difficult spending cuts. Visit our © 2020 Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. All rights reserved. Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted.By submitting a comment, you accept that CBC has the right to reproduce and publish that comment in whole or in part, in any manner CBC chooses.
Premier Jason Kenney's principal adviser David Knight-Legg spent thousands of taxpayer dollars during four trips to London, U.K., Alberta's Official Opposition said Wednesday.The NDP highlighted the expenses in a news release based on publicly available travel and expense disclosures.Harrison Fleming, deputy press secretary with the premier's office, said one of Knight-Legg's tasks is to secure capital investment for Alberta — especially for the energy sector, but also for artificial intelligence and technology.
71 comments. 379 Followers, 446 Following, 126 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from David Knight Legg (@davidknightlegg) 36 comments. "According to the disclosures, Knight-Legg spent more than $18,000 on four trips to London in the last six months. First they sent their sne Alberta Politics. Politics. coronavirus cases surge to 50 ahead of long weekendHow Canada’s first long-term coronavirus pandemic projections hold up todayCoronavirus: Tam says Canada’s COVID-19 curve is seeing an ‘uptick’Ghislaine Maxwell tried to hide when FBI agents arrived to arrest her, court documents allege‘Not planning on going anywhere’: TikTok puts out message as Trump says he plans to ban company in the U.S.Coronavirus: ‘CERB has served its purpose’ says Employment Minister Qualtrough in explanation of planned move to EITrudeau, Poilievre engage in heated exchange regarding dollar amount paid out to Trudeau family by WE CharityOttawa launches COVID-19 ‘exposure notification’ app David Knight-Legg 2 RESULTS FOUND ON THIS TAG Alberta Politics. We ask you to keep your comments relevant and respectful. This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Itâs time for Mr. Kenney to apply the same standards to his staff and make Mr. Knight-Legg pay back a portion of his exorbitant luxury travel bills. But refusing to take that invitation would make Alberta a joke around that London headquarters, and pretty much write the province off the investment map.The result we don’t know — he’s cautious about naming names. I’ve only ever taken the statutory per diem.”Veteran travellers know that an $18,000 tab for four return trips to hyper-expensive London is almost a bargain.“You have to be there,” he said.
So while Jason Kenneyâs top aide is releasing his "inner bon vivant", Alberta families are losing sleep over paying more income tax, more property tax and more school fees. Read more about This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.Braid: Criticized for expenses, David Knight Legg speaks out on London tripsVeteran travellers know that an $18,000 tab for four return trips to hyper-expensive London is almost a bargain, writes Don Braid.Braid: Criticized for expenses, David Knight Legg speaks out on London tripsBraid: Criticized for expenses, David Knight Legg speaks out on London tripsBraid: Criticized for expenses, David Knight Legg speaks out on London trips
David Knight-Legg, principal adviser to Premier Jason Kenney, has billed Alberta taxpayers for even more luxury travel expenses in the past six months. A Minister of the Crown went to the home of a doctor to yell, scream, insult, berate, and intimidate him. Check out the latest pictures, photos and images of David Knight-Legg.
share. But he makes no apology for his expenses.“I always fly economy class,” he said in an interview. David Knight-Legg, principal adviser to Premier Jason Kenney, has billed Alberta taxpayers for even more luxury travel expenses in the past six months. Also Mexico and California.London is crucial as a world centre of energy investment, he says.
He said Knight-Legg stayed in or near London's financial district, so he could host meetings with investors at his hotel. Whatâs more, Jason Kenney is exploiting a loophole so they can take pandemic relief money for their political party. Knight Legg, 49, had a senior role with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, based in both Sydney and Hong Kong. Why, those perfidious Swedes! Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!Twitter may remove this content at anytime, convert it as a PDF, save and print for later use!2) Go to a Twitter thread (series of Tweets by the same owner) and mention us with a keyword "unroll" Fifty-four forty or what? The province has a lot of problems, but this might be the most serious of all.Knight Legg has been several times to Toronto, Montreal and New York. Fleming said Knight-Legg travels to meet with major banks, private equity funds and insurers.The organizations he meets with can't be named "due to the commercially sensitive nature of the meetings," Fleming said. Next week he travels to Houston with Kenney. Born and raised in Lethbridge, David Legg graduated from Lethbridge Collegiate Institute in 1987.