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It was a pricey Paris photo-op for Premier Christy Clark at the United Nations climate-change conference — and B.C. taxpayers were the ones coughing up the euros.

Clark attended the UN summit last November with a 17-member entourage, which included government photographer Kyle Surovy.

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Clark spent three days in Paris and taxpayers footed the bill for Surovy to follow her around and take pictures and videos.

The total cost to taxpayers for the premier’s Parisian photo shoot: $5,413.22, which included the photographer’s airfare, hotel, meals and three days’ salary. The amounts are contained in newly released budget documents.

It’s not a bill that will break the government’s bank, of course.

But this is a province where money is so tight, the government says it can’t even afford to keep sick elderly couples together in provincial nursing homes. The heartbreaking separation of Surrey’s Wolfram and Anita Gottschalk made headlines around the world last week.