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A city councillor took aim at Calgary social agencies Monday by complaining about high salaries and even a luxury car for an Ontario charity boss, though he wasn’t able to actually recall that example’s particulars.

Sean Chu, the first-term member for Ward 4, said that he’d read about one executive out east getting a Mercedes-Benz as a perk for running a non-profit agency, and used that to argue in council Monday that social organizations that get City of Calgary support grants should disclose their senior staff compensation packages.

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Pressed after the meeting for details on which charity handed out the car, Chu could not remember.

“I didn’t write it down. I just saw it in the Google search,” he said.

A Herald search of Google regarding an Ontario charity and a Mercedes found no such anecdotes. A news archive search discovered reference years ago to a Hamilton hospital administrator owning the German luxury vehicle with help from his car allowance.