B.C. contractor used charity’s money for personal expenses: court [Video]

A B.C. man who was hired to help a non-profit build a food hub but instead spent the money on personal expenses – including travel, restaurants, booze and cannabis – has been ordered to pay more than $120,000 in damages.

The decision in the case was handed down last month, with the judge’s ruling posted online Wednesday.

Cowichan Green Community Society, the decision says, raised over a million dollars in government grants in order to construct a building in Duncan that would function as a food hub where local farmers could process and distribute food. It would also serve as a base for “services, research and education related to its mandate” of improving food security.

The charity contracted Christopher Patrick Whittle for consulting and construction services and paid the companies of which he was the sole proprietor three deposits totalling $108,000.

“Shortly after he received the deposits, Mr. Whittle transferred …