Expenditures by Partnerships B.C. CEO Larry Blain
HANSARD February 27
EXPENDITURES BY
PARTNERSHIPS B.C. CEO LARRY BLAIN
B. Ralston: My question is to the Minister of Finance. Larry Blain, the Partnerships B.C. chief, hosted a dinner at Al Porto Ristorante in Vancouver on June 23, 2005. The invited guests included board members and senior staff and other honchos from the public-private partnerships world.
Those in Mr. Blain's party drank their way through 13 bottles of wine: five Wild Goose Pinot Gris, three Columbia Crest Merlot, two Penfolds Chardonnay and three bottles of another Australian wine called d'Arenberg Stump Jump. They also drank a Grey Goose martini, a cosmopolitan, a rum, three bottles of beer and a glass of premium Scotch. The entire bill was paid for by the taxpayers of British Columbia.
Can the Minister of Finance answer this: how many bottles of wine does it take to build a hospital?
Budget Response – Day 1
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