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“I’m finding out exactly how much I owe. So as soon as I find out.”

Magliocca said Monday that he also arrived three days early to the conference and that contributed to his higher expenses.

Among the receipts submitted by Magliocca was a $331 bar tab at the Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac, where martinis and cocktails were consumed by a group of politicians from Calgary, Chestermere and Sylvan Lake, as well as the mayors of Mississauga, Ont., and Sooke, B.C.

Magliocca also expensed a $238 meal of steaks and wine with Brooks Mayor Barry Morishita.

Some of Magliocca’s receipts were ultimately rejected, according to the head of the co-ordinating committee of the councillors’ office.

Council members are permitted to expense alcohol while travelling on city business, so long as “consumption is reasonable” and the meeting involves third parties and not just city councillors.

But city policy also limits the amount of hosting expenses allowed to $100 per day, per council member.

Magliocca said Monday that he will repay any alcohol that was expensed to the city that exceeded the limit.

He also defended the merits of his generous approach to networking, citing an example from another FCM meeting in Kitchener-Waterloo last September. As council’s representative on FCM’s board in 2019, Magliocca said he successfully lobbied the group to pass a resolution proposing regional or Alberta-friendly tweaks to Ottawa’s controversial mortgage stress test.