So our Governor General and her staff took a trip to the Middle East for Expo 2020 in Dubai.
29 of her key staff, and 17 crew, boarded a CC-150 Polaris and proceeded to, well, eat.
A lot.
Now I hear you saying, Wait a minute, UC, there were a lot of people on that plane.
You're right, so let's do the math.
So 46 people had three breakfasts, three dinners and two lunches on board. Can't be that bad.
So let's see, $80,000 divided by 46, divided by 8 meals is.....$217 per meal.
That can't be right. $217 per meal! And that doesn't include any booze.
I don't think I've ever had a $200 meal in my life. Let alone eight in a row.
And, of course, this doesn't include the cost of the flight, hotels, and meals for the eight day boondoggle fact finding mission.
I guess if you've been in government long enough you think you are, what's the word?
Entitled.
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wait a second, you have the wrong GG in the photo, it was the GG who was ousted
I remember pretty fancy dining at your retirement
Nope, Expo 2020 was held in March 2022 due to Covid.
And our dinner that night bill came to $199 per person. Pretty sure, anyway. :-)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/military-catering-bill-gg-trip-middle-east-1.6491222
Perhaps your outrage is slightly misplaced??
Yeah, I read that article. And that's right, it wasn't her department that charged the #217/ meal. They had no idea the DND would charge so much. But it only reinforces the last line of my post.
I think the point of the article was that the cost of this trip was determined by having to use available suppliers in foreign countries which means paying the going rate in those countries. In other words, the costs are in line with any one week government junket to the middle east...whether its Conservative politicians or Liberals or otherwise. The original story in the NP was an attack job on the GG.
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