Christy Clark’s calendar, obtained through a freedom of information request, shows that in the years she pocketed an extra $300,000 in salary from her donors, she worked on government business far less than the average British Columbian works at their own job.

As Premier, Clark earned two salaries – $200,000 paid by the people of British Columbia, and another $50,000 a year paid by BC Liberal donors.

Records of Clark’s calendar obtained show that between 2013 and the end of 2016, Christy Clark took an average of 76 weekdays off every year. That’s nearly 4 months of vacation.

And on days she actually did work, she only put in an average of 6.7 hours.

In fact, in three and a half years, Clark only put in 265 full working days of 8 hours or more. In that time, a typical British Columbian working full time would have put in more like 800.

A reasonable person might assume this is because she puts in a lot of hours on the weekend. But she only worked on 30 per cent of weekend days and on those days she only put in an average of 4 hours.

When Clark’s second salary became public, some political figures came to her defense, arguing that she is a busy person:

“It's also been pretty common that the leaders have some sort of stipend, because it's like having two jobs and they spend probably 70 or 80 hours a week working.”
-- Deputy Premier Rich Coleman

“The premier has argued that she does two jobs: one as the premier; one as leader of the political party. I have some sympathy for this argument….Present rules allow for parties to pay their leaders stipends. I have no problem with this.”
-- Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver

But Christy Clark’s own calendar shows that either she wasn’t working long hours, or she was spending the rest of her time doing things she doesn’t want the public to know about. This leaves a few big questions:

• Is this really your full calendar?
• If it’s not complete, why aren’t your other commitments recorded in your government calendar?
• Are you spending the rest of your time with your top donors, like the meeting in April 2016 with Peter Wall that does not appear in your calendar?

Background documents:

Summary of the analysis of Clark’s calendar.

Spreadsheet showing the hours she worked every day between the day she took office and the end of 2016.

Clark’s entire calendar, obtained through FOI request, through that same period.