City clerks revealed Wednesday that the rookie Elmwood-East Kildonan councillor used his city credit card to pay for personal expenses approximately 600 times between January 2015 and September 2016, when he was stripped of the city charge card. Warned repeatedly: deputy city clerkLemoine said Schreyer was warned repeatedly not to charge personal expenses to his city credit card. Last week, Schreyer said he merely was late in providing explanations for his expenses to the city clerk's department. On Wednesday, he denied clerks ever told him to stop using the card for personal expenses, noting councillors used to be able to make personal charges on city credit cards and then compensate the city. Schreyer said he was not told to stop using the card for personal expenses until the city was about to change that policy.

Source: CBC News July 12, 2017 18:45 UTC