Audit of Wallin’s travel expenses reveals University of Guelph events
By all appearances Senator Pamela Wallin was a penny pincher when she served as the University of Guelph’s chancellor from 2007 until 2011. Wallin went to great lengths to limit the expenses she billed to the school, according to a story in the Guelph Mercury from last March. She regularly stayed on campus, for example, and over five years of expense reports, she “claimed nothing for accommodation three times and less than $300 in each of the other two years.” The good-news story quoted a university spokesman who had “nothing but good things to say” about Wallin’s time at the university.
However, a recently released audit of Wallin’s travel expenses reveals that Canadian taxpayers were on the hook for some of her business with the school.
A university spokesperson says for the events on Guelph’s campus, Wallin only billed the school for car service from Toronto to Guelph. The spokesperson added that the school would have covered all of her costs.