Jean Augustine is being less than fair to Ontario taxpayers, Tory MPP Monte McNaughton says.

Augustine, Ontario’s first fairness commissioner, was taken to task in the legislature Tuesday, for submitting expenses of $3,400 for limousines, $6,300 for a trip to a conference in Finland, including a sightseeing tour, and $3.40 for headphones on an Air Canada flight to Halifax.

Progressive Conservative leadership hopeful Monte McNaughton said these kinds of expenses — the details of which he obtained through freedom of information legislation and cover a 15-month period — are evidence the Liberals have learned nothing from the various expense scandals that have dogged their government.

McNaughton, who submitted his FOI request on Aug. 25, added that she should she post her expenses online.

“Clearly the eHealth and Pan Am Games style of entitlement is alive and well . . . ” he told MPPs during question period. “It doesn’t seem like the fairness commissioner is being very fair to taxpayers in this province.”

“Taxpayers deserve better,” McNaughton told reporters later Tuesday.

An upset Augustine said other than inadvertently not paying for the headphones all her expenses were job-related.

“I am very upset that my reputation would be so sullied,” said the 77-year former federal Liberal MP and cabinet minister, who left Ottawa in 2005.

Augustine earns about $1,700 a week in her part-time position.

A spokeswoman for Premier Kathleen Wynne’s office and Citizenship, Immigration and International Trade Minister Michael Chan incorrectly told reporters that Augustine had since either withdrawn the expenses or paid them back.

Augustine’s office records showed she had paid back a total of only $18.92, which had nothing to do with the expenses raised by McNaughton. That dealt with money she had to pay back for slightly exceeding per diems for breakfast, lunch and dinner while travelling.

Her trip to Tampere, Finland in 2013 was for the International Metropolis Conference, which focused on managing growth, security and social justice, according to information provided by Augustine’s office.

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The Office of the Fairness Commissioner, an arm’s length agency of the Ontario government, works with the regulated professions and compulsory trades in Ontario to ensure that they have registration practices that are transparent, objective, impartial and fair, according to the commission’s website.

“I have been trying to get around the province and the area to talk about the work we do, which is part of the expenditure on the service I used,” Augustine said, referring to the car service expenses.

NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said, “We’ve seen Liberals time and time again be caught with their hands in the cookie jar and we’re seeing it once again.”