{"id":401328,"date":"2025-11-24T12:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/401328\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:49:14","slug":"previous-government-spent-40000-on-luxury-tour-of-torngat-mountains-taxpayers-federation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/401328\/","title":{"rendered":"Previous Government Spent $40,000 on Luxury Tour of Torngat Mountains: Taxpayers Federation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/confederation-building-provincial-government.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Previous Government Spent $40,000 on Luxury Tour of Torngat Mountains: Taxpayers Federation\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A watchdog that focuses on government spending says Newfoundland and Labrador blew $40,000 in the dying days of the Liberal administration to cater to a luxury tour company.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Taxpayers Federation says records obtained by it show that the Department of Tourism gave a bureaucrat and four representatives of tour operator Entree Canada a five-day all-expense-paid trip, including helicopter, to the Torngat Mountains National Park three months ago.<\/p>\n<p>The objective according to the federation was to develop a high-end tourism package, but the organization says nothing has come of it. The federation says Entree has yet to send a single tourist to the park.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/devin-drover-canadian-taxpyers-federation.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-267178\" class=\"size-full wp-image-267178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/devin-drover-canadian-taxpyers-federation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-267178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Devin Drover, a lawyer and spokesperson for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>Executive director Devin Drover says this is exactly why government should not be in the business of corporate welfare.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s urging the provincial government to review all discretionary tourism spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; A watchdog that focuses on government spending says Newfoundland and Labrador blew $40,000 in the dying days&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":401329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-401328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115604761831752310","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}