Ford government minister bills taxpayers $16K for Toronto hotels despite living in city

By Global News

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For the past three years, a senior cabinet minister in the Ford government has been billing provincial taxpayers thousands of dollars for hotel rooms in downtown Toronto, despite living just a few kilometres away from Queen’s Park — public money that he’s now promising to partly pay back. Between 2023 and 2026, Tourism Culture and Gaming Minister Stan Cho charged the Ontario Legislative Assembly $16,203 for “Toronto accommodation,” according to publicly available disclosure records. While that accommodation is only available to Toronto-based MPPs for “special or unusual circumstances,” such as a snow storm, Cho repeatedly requested repayment for multiple hotel rooms during that time period. In one year, Cho’s Toronto hotel room expenses left taxpayers with an $11,000 tab. Global's Colin D'Mello reports. For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/20fcXDc Follow Global News on X HERE: http://bit.ly/1Toz8mt Follow Global Ne

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