Raucous junket flight cost military more than price of admission

While the recent audit did not evaluate whether or not DND received value for these flights in return for the tax dollars spent, I think it is safe to say in this case the answer is a resounding 'no.'

Retired Gen. Jonathan Vance, the former chief of the defence staff, initially defended the value of the VIP tours, which came under scrutiny after the 2017 ‘party flight.’The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

February 24, 2021

OTTAWA—In the category of understating the obvious, last week, the Department of National Defence released the results of an audit. The auditors’ findings concluded that the organization within DND responsible for a drunken 2017 VIP junket, dubbed the “party flight,” had been operating for y...

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