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The bill for 1,000 pages of Premier Scott Moe’s expense records could run up to $1,690, according to a fee estimate the NDP is calling “outrageous.”

But the government shot back with its own accusations about past NDP spending and accused the Opposition of playing “fast and loose with the facts.”

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On Wednesday, the NDP shared a response to a freedom of information request its staff submitted to executive council in January.

The party requested “receipts and/or documentation for all the Premier’s expenses since January 1, 2019.”

The government responded with an estimate that pegged the total number of pages covered by the request at 1,000. The cost was calculated at 15 cents per page of photocopying and a total of $1,500 for 50 hours’ staff time for search, retrieval and preparation.

The NDP would have to pay half the estimate as a deposit for officials to begin work on the request.

In a statement, the NDP’s critic for ethics and democracy David Forbes called the estimate “shocking and wrong.