B.C. bureaucrats are bringing a whole new meaning to the phrase “sky-high spending”.

Employees of the provincial government have been charging taxpayers for tens of thousands of dollars worth of helicopter travel.

Why wait in line for the ferry when you can look down on it from a helicopter?

Helicopter trips seem to have become the norm, not the exception, for some bureaucrats in B.C.’s government.

Let’s take a look at the Ministry of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport, for example.

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Staff from the Tourism Ministry spent $93,000 on helicopter rides in 2024 alone, according to documents obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation through freedom-of-information requests.

It’s truly difficult to imagine a more wasteful way for g

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