Ottawa, ON – After nine years, Justin Trudeau is not worth the cost and not worth the corruption. While a record number of Canadians are lining up outside of food banks and giving up on ever being able to afford a home, Trudeau decided to purchase his friend a $9 million condo on Billionaire’s Row in New York City.
After serving as a top ally of Justin Trudeau’s in the Liberal media, Trudeau decided to award Tom Clark by appointing him the Consul General in New York. Then, right as he was appointed, Trudeau decided to increase the limit Global Affairs could spend on property from $4 million to $10 million.
As a direct result of this, there was zero oversight from Treasury Board when Trudeau purchased this luxury condo for his friend. This sets a troubling precedent with Trudeau now being allowed to spend vast sums of taxpayer dollars on lavish properties with hardly any transparency.
For this reason, Common Sense Conservatives called for Tom Clark to appear before Committee to explain why he needs a $9 million apartment, equipped with Italian marble and a golf simulator, to do his job. Unfortunately, Clark refused to appear, leaving Canadians in the dark.
Tom Clark is an employee of the government. His new apartment is being paid for by Canadian taxpayers. Refusing to show up for a committee meeting and answer questions from those taxpayers is not acceptable.
It’s clear that Clark knows that there’s absolutely no justification for this ridiculous spending and would rather hide away in his multi-million-dollar New York City apartment.
Only Common Sense Conservatives will end the wasteful spending, fire Tom Clark and bring home common sense to Ottawa.