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Originally Posted by ken0042
I don't have first hand knowledge, but it appears that the spirit of the policy is to allow the person to be back to where they consider home at the end of their career. So if a guy is stationed in Ontario but home is Alberta, the DND pays for those expenses.
Maybe there is no wording in the policy because in the past anybody doing a move within the same city had a small bill; so it was a fair reward to pay somebody a few grand in moving expenses after retirement.
Now this guy has figured out a way to have the gov't pay a huge amount of money for a move of only a few blocks. He is already "home"- he was just playing the real estate market. And when it comes time for me to retire, I might downsize as well; especially if that's the difference in having a mortgage or not.
To me this is like a business that has a jar of free pens on the counter. The idea being, take one or two pens if you'd like. Then you have a teacher walk in and grab all of them to give to his class. That wasn't what the point of the free pens are, so now the business has to put up a sign saying "1 pen per person."
Did he break the rules- technically no. However maybe those rules need to be addressed and modified. Do I think this needed to be national news- no. Who knows if that was the intent when it was brought up.
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I thanked you, specifically for this bolded part. While I agree that the policy might need to be tweaked, or more specified because of a case like this, the guy doesn't appear to have actually done anything wrong here. Because of that, the guy ought to not have his reputation tarnished.