TORONTO - After weeks of watching details trickle out about spending at eHealth Ontario, the government has released hundreds of pages of expense receipts and other documents from the troubled agency.
The value of untendered contracts awarded to consultants by eHealth grew from $5 million to $9 million to about $15 million as journalists and opposition parties kept digging for documents.
The Liberals decided to stop the daily leaks by flooding reporters with six large binders full of everything from day planners for eHealth executives and meeting minutes to restaurant and parking receipts.
Reporters still sifting through the massive pile of documents have already found receipts showing eHealth board members billing for flights from as far away as Florida to attend meetings in Toronto.
Even some Toronto board members bill taxpayers for the taxi rides to and from the eHealth meetings, in addition to the $380 they get for each meeting, and the $380 some bill for preparing for the meeting.
The CEO and chair of the eHealth board both resigned in June, but the opposition parties say Health Minister David Caplan should be fired for his handling of the eHealth scandal.
