Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Chief Science Advisor spent more than $300,000 on travel from Tokyo to Oslo, records show. “Science can be everywhere,” Dr. Mona Nemer earlier told MPs.
“I am a science advisor,” said Nemer, a University of Ottawa biochemist. “I appreciate that science can be everywhere.”
Nemer is paid $393,000 a year. Since her appointment in 2017 Nemer billed $316,224 for travel. The only periods in which Nemer did not incur travel expenses were during pandemic lockdowns.
Records show days after her appointment Nemer booked a week in Paris to “attend meetings.” Her business-class flights alone cost $8,335.
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