So much for doing politics differently. It looks like the Justin Trudeau Liberals are just as entitled to their entitlements as those who came before them.

This week we learned Limousine Jane took another joy ride with our tax dollars. Health Minister Jane Philpott has been against the ropes for $3,700 spent on "luxury sedan" trips for two days worth of meetings, which she announced she’s repaying. But now we learn Philpott also billed taxpayers $520 for access to Air Canada’s executive lounge, which she’s also planning to repay. Isn’t the whole point of calling it the House of Commons to show you’re a commoner just like the rest of us? Why the need to separate yourself from the great unwashed, Minister Philpott?

Philpott has promised something like the lounge expenses won’t happen again. But that’s what she said beforehand, when the car expenses were revealed. Are there any other questionable bills? If so, Philpott would be wise to practice a little proactive disclosure and get it out in the open herself. A third inappropriate expense revealed by media or the opposition will be a hat trick worthy of a boot out of cabinet.

But that’s not all. Perhaps not wanting to be outdone by her Vogue cover model prime minister colleague, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna was the subject of her own vanity fair while at the Paris climate change conference late last year.

Any sensible observer knows these conferences are mostly for show, but McKenna clearly took the rule too literally. We’ve now learned her department billed the taxpayer $6,600 for a photographer to follow McKenna and her staff around the conference taking pictures.

"Photos, like press releases, social media and other communications tools, are a way to communicate to Canadians the work the government is doing on their behalf," spokesperson Caitlyn Workman told media via email. But why couldn’t McKenna and her staff have learned from Prime Minister Selfie himself, and just snapped some decent iPhone pics?

Meanwhile, as David Akin reports, one government delegate to the convention even racked up a food bill of $4,300 in Paris – that’s $330 a day.

The Liberals have clearly mastered Marshall McLuhan’s rule that the medium is the message. They’ve got the whole image thing figured out. Fresh Nanos Research data released Tuesday confirms as much, showing the PM is still immensely popular.

However these expense stories are putting small cracks in the Liberals’ image. If hardworking Canadians see more stories about their money being frittered away, they’re going to have serious doubts that Trudeau stands for "real change" after all.