Politicians have expenses and other financial involvements and you can now see how much Members of Parliament spent from April 1, 2018, to Dec. 31, 2018.
We looked into the numbers and have compiled the data for Todd Doherty, Cariboo-Prince George, and Bob Zimmer, Prince George-Peace River-Northern Rockies. So if numbers are your thing, have fun!
Todd Doherty = MP of Cariboo–Prince George
Number of electors: 79,517
Employees’ Salaries - $226,575.65
Service Contracts - $42,942.42
Travel:
- Member: $5,166.03 (resources provided by the house $45,780.35)
- Designated traveller $0 (resources provided by the house $34,951.46)
- Dependents: $0 (resources provided by the house $6,169.18)
- Employees: $8,930.18 (resources provided by the house $12,451.39)
- Member’s accommodation expenses $2,341.91 (resources provided by the house $0)
- Member’s per diem expenses: $2,012.49 (resources provided by the house $0)
- Member’s secondary residence expenses: $20,496.32 (resources provided by the house $0)
Hospitality: $3,171.15 (resources provided by the house $0)
Gifts: $0
Advertising: $23,613.32 (resources provided by the house $0)
Printing:
- Householders: $0 (resources provided by the house $0)
- Ten percenters: $0 (resources provided by the house $0)
- Other printing-related expenses: $0 (resources provided by the house $0)
Offices:
- Constituency office leases, insurance and utilities: $7,908.15 (resources provided by the house $0)
- Furniture, furnishing and equipment purchase: $864.04 (resources provided by the house)
- Equipment rentals: $2,383.40 (resources provided by the house $0)
- Informatics and telecommunication equipment purchases: $4,090.80 (resources provided by house $0)
- Telecommunication services: $5,955.03 (resources provided by the house $2,027.07)
- Repairs and maintenance $418 (resources provided by the house $0)
- Postage and courier $907.04 (resources provided by the house $0)
- Materials and supplies: $1,098.59 (resources provided by the house $337)
- Training: $350 (resources provided by the house $0)
Total Member’s Budgets: $359,574.56
Resources provided by the house: $107,148.01
Travel points: 40.5
Total: $466,722.57
Bob Zimmer = MP of Prince George–Peace River–Northern Rockies
Number of electors: 78,420
Employees’ Salaries: $189,116.26
Travel:
- Member %5,272.22 (resources provided by house $74,263.23)
- Designated traveller $0 (resources covered by the house $9,596.62)
- Dependents: $0 (resources provided by the house $6,639.41)
- Employees $4,808.34 (resources provided by the house $4,911.63)
- Member’s accommodation expenses: $2,676.34 (resources provided by the house $0)
- Member’s per diem expenses: $9,636.43 (resources provided by the house $0)
- Member’s secondary residence expenses: $9,015.36 (resources provided by the house $0)
Hospitality: $4,692.73 (resources provided by the house $0)
Gifts: $462.84 (resources provided by the house $0)
Advertising: $19,337.17 (resources provided by the house $2,858.79)
Printing: Householders - $0
- Ten Percenters $0 (resources provided by the house $748.84)
- Other printing-related expenses: $1690.25 (resources provided by the house $0)
Offices:
- Constituency office leases, insurance and other utilities: $32,179.00 (resources provided by the house $0)
- Furniture, furnishing and equipment purchases: $4,831.01 (resources provided by the house $0)
- Equipment rentals: $1,054.82 (resources provided by the house $0)
- Informatics and telecommunication equipment purchases: $9.559.48
- Telecommunication services: $8,608.13 (resources provided by the house $2,027.07)
- Repairs and maintenance: $1,741.65 (resources provided by the house $0)
- Postage and courier services: $2,021.66 (resources provided by the house $0)
- Materials and supplies: $2,021 (resources provided by the house $416.30)
- Training: none
Total Member’s budget: $310,992.38
Resources provided by the house: $101,461.89
Travel points: 54.5
Total: $412,454.27
And if you're even more curious about other MPs, you can find a fill list on the Parliament of Canada's website.
