Nixon responds to NDP’s helicopter joyride accusations
NDP Environment Critic Marlin Schmidt shot down the UCP’s recent move to save cost by restructuring Alberta Parks in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday by stating “The UCP believes that camping is a luxury that we just cannot afford.”
He said that Minister of Environment and Parks Jason Nixon, according to a freedom of information request, spent $7,200 on a helicopter joyride on Victoria Day long weekend in 2019.
In a release, Schmidt said that he believes “Nixon must repay this lavish expense.”
Jess Sinclair, Nixon’s Press Secretary, says the trip was undertaken for business purposes and that “the flight over the long weekend would have taken place with or without the Minister present.”