Taxpayers paid for even more lavish foreign trips: Speaker

A five-day, nearly $40,000 trip to England in 2011 for B.C.’s three highest-ranking legislature officials is one of several questionable travel expenses detailed in the newest report by Speaker Darryl Plecas into the recent spending scandal.
“The trips of Mr. Lenz and Mr. James have the appearance of loosely justifiable travel on the public purse rather than necessary expenses,” Plecas writes about Clerk Craig James and Sergeant-at-Arms Gary Lenz, who were both suspended in Nov