What can you get for $27.44?
If you had $27.44 burning a hole in your pocket, what would you buy?
An awesome pair of scuba fins? A smoking hot picture of Pamela Hannam (National Bodybuilder) with a sword? A bitchen’ pair of pliers?
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Sadly, you can’t get any of those. Your $27.44 has already been spent on a riot:
The federal government spent $933 million on security for the G8/G20 talks in Toronto, which works out to a little over $27 per Canadian. The amount is seems excessive, especially given the amount spent on security for previous G8 meetings:
(Note that the graph above is a dramatic low-ball, as it assumes that half of the $933 million was spent on the G20 summit)
It’s too bad that vandals that showed up with the legitimate protesters. They’ve provided a post hoc justification for a mind-numbing waste of money.
Next time perhaps they could consider renting a cruise ship and buggering off to the middle of the Atlantic. Or maybe head to Kannanaskis again?
I don’t think you’re split is right. I doubt it cost the same to secure Huntsville for 8 countries delegates as it did Toronto for 20 countries. And really, unless you have a line by line comparison then we don’t really know how we stack up. If you look at 2004 costing $50,000,000. I doubt that the US president travels anywhere with it costing that little. I’m sure the Secret Service bill alone was twice that.
I did like that Harper pledged 1.1 billion for maternal health. It seems like he was gonna do a billion but decided he had to spend more on maternal health than he did on the conference.