New Brunswick’s minister of tourism faced a second day of questions Wednesday about her deputy minister’s expense claims, including more than $19,000 in moving costs.
“We will continue to adhere to the relocation policy that is in effect across all of GNB,” Tammy Scott-Wallace said, using an abbreviation for the provincial government.
Premier Blaine Higgs hired Yennah Hurley, a former travel blogger and tourism business operator, first as an adviser to the Department of tourism, Heritage and Culture in 2019 and then as its deputy minister.
Coon said it was “almost unbelievable” that taxpayers were covering moving expenses, such as the $15,000 real estate commission paid on the house Hurley sold when she moved from Quispamsis to Fredericton last year.
“The taxpayers of this province…
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