Top bureaucrats charged taxpayers for unnecessary flights after Trudeau told them not to

During a press conference on March 11, Trudeau said that "The largest factor is actually Canadians’ own behaviour. We can by making smart choices as citizens to follow the instructions of Health Canada."

Health Canada's instructions were for citizens to stay at home and avoid travel. Nevertheless, flight records reveal that top civil servants continued to fly for routine business.

On the same day as Trudeau's press conference, for instance, two federal executives charged the taxpayer $2,849 for a plane trip to Halifax for a standard meeting.

As well as this, Sharily Ingram, who is chair of the Administrative Tribunals Support Service, charged the taxpayer $1,652 for a business trip to Ottawa.

It doesn't stop there. Chuck Maillet, vice-president of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, charged Ottawa $725 for a flight to St. John’s because he had to have an "interview."

A week before this, the Trudeau government asked all Canadians to avoid unnecessary travel as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. This didn't stop the taxpayer fulled flights of Ottawa's faceless bureaucrats, however.

On March 8, two other civil servants spent $2,199 and $1,986 respectively so that they could attend meetings they otherwise could have attended via Skype or Zoom like the rest of us.