Stan Cho's $16k hotel tab is just the tip of the iceberg

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STAN CHO’s hotel expenses have triggered another optics headache for the Ford government. The Minister of Tourism and MPP for Willowdale is under fire for expensing taxpayers more than $16K for hotel stays in Toronto, despite living six kilometres from Queen’s Park. And he’s not the only one.

That’s a no-no under the Legislative Assembly’s rules, which say that MPPs who live within 50 kilometres of Queen’s Park can only charge accommodation in special circumstances, like a snowstorm.

Juicy tidbits from Global News: Cho didn’t start expensing overnight stays until 2023, and then starting racking up increasingly higher bills, including a total of $11,691 in fiscal 2025-26. The reasons for his bookings remain a mystery. Cho initially said he’d personally pay back the charges that didn’t “meet the spirit” of the rules, then pivoted after the story broke, promising to foot the entire tab.

Critics are having a field day with this one. The op…