The finance department paid a newspaper columnist thousands of dollars for help in discussing its austerity budget, documents show. Brian Lee Crowley, a contributor to the Ottawa Citizen and Globe and Mail, received $7,781 to host three budget roundtable meetings sponsored by the Department of Finance, according to a finance official and accounts tabled in the Commons.
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