Saskatchewan’s finance minister said it was worth spending nearly $8,000 on a private plane to attend a chamber of commerce lunch days after she tabled a budget that contained tax hikes.
Donna Harpauer says the price tag for the March 25 flight from Regina to North Battleford, Sask., and back was high, but it’s the cost of doing business.
“I think being in other communities to present the budget … is important and there is a cost to doing it,” she said Tuesday.
Harpauer said she took the flight with her chief of staff because she would have been too