TORONTO

There’s a new crew in charge to make sure that expense rules are observed by the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games team, Premier Kathleen Wynne says.

“I expect the rules to be followed to the letter,” Wynne told Sun Media in a year-end interview. “I follow the rules and I expect everyone to do that. Where there’s a breach, I expect it to be corrected and people to be held accountable.”

Pan Am’s high-flying executives logged a lot of time in the air on their way to glamorous destinations like Paris, London and New York, as revealed in expense documents released Dec. 12.

Since then, the province has cleared the upper tier of the Games — with the help of more than $1 million in golden handshakes – and put in their own people.

Wynne said she has complete faith in the new CEO Saad Rafi and Chair David Peterson to keep expenses under control.

The expenses identified in the Freedom of Information documents were incurred before Wynne was premier.

“I knew when I came into this job that there was going to be that continuity, and so I take responsibility,” she said. “We have to do our best to make sure that we correct the problems and that we move ahead in a good way.”

Conservative MPP Todd Smith has questioned why the current executive team supported using taxpayer dollars to purchase Toronto Argonauts tickets, Tim Hortons cards and travel to a PGA championship.