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Sweet said it’s three times as much as anyone else in Kenney’s office has claimed, and more than former NDP premier Rachel Notley’s principal adviser spent in four years.

The claims include one-way flights from London to Calgary costing as much as $3,442 and $3,571 each.

In London, he stayed in hotels that cost at least $350 a night. They boast of connections to Napoleon III and movie stars.

The receipts paint a picture of near-constant travel between Edmonton, Calgary, New York, Vancouver, Quebec, London and other locales between May and early September.

For the first two weeks of July, he expensed a two-week stay at a Calgary hotel for more than $3,000. Most expenses are described as for meeting stakeholders.

Investor meetings in financial district

Sweet said citizens have seen no substantive announcement about collaboration with Britain or ministerial visits that would explain the trips.

In September, the Alberta government announced a memorandum of understanding with the U.K. to partner on commercializing new technologies.

Harrison Fleming, the premier’s deputy press secretary, did not say whether Knight Legg’s travel was related to that partnership.

Knight Legg meets with investors at the hotel, which requires him to be near London’s financial district, Fleming said. Hotels there are expensive, and his costs are consistent with government-approved rates.

“Mr. Knight Legg’s travel centres around securing capital investment for Alberta, especially for our energy sector but also in fields such as artificial intelligence and technology,” Fleming said in a Wednesday email. “Mr. Knight Legg also works to counter the misinformation campaign of defamation against our ethical energy sector.”