CALGARY - Alberta Premier Alison Redford was a member for several
months of a controversial legislature committee that never actually met,
the Calgary Herald learned Friday, just a day after the premier said
she did not know about the "disappointing" situation. Redford told
the Calgary Herald on Thursday that she was unaware that 21 government
and opposition provincial representatives have been paid $1,000 a month -
a total of $261,000 annually - to sit on a committee that hasn't met
since 2008. "I did not know," she said. But according to
Hansard, the official record of the Legislative Assembly, she was
appointed to the standing committee on privileges and elections,
standing orders and printing on Oct. 28, 2009 through a motion in the
legislature. Her office said Friday the former justice minister
left the committee in February 2010. Redford included the committee in
the statement she was required to file listing all payments to
provincial representatives for the year ending March 31, 2010.
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