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3 bureaucrats spent $12Gs dining in Paris, and we picked up the billhttp://www.torontosun.com/2016/08/23/en ... ments-show"OTTAWA -- A trio of Environment Canada bureaucrats ate their way through more than $12,000 worth of fine Parisian cuisine during last fall's big climate change conference.
Those three alone accounted for about 1/10th of the $129,000 in meal claims by the entire 155-strong Canadian delegation to the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, also known as COP21, held in Paris from Nov. 30 to Dec. 12 last year.
The federal government's trip -- which included Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and many other politicians, aides and bureaucrats -- cost taxpayers just under $1 million."$1 million bucks? As bad as it sounds, it could have been much worse (as evidenced by three hogs spending $12K on food/booze).
Unfortunately, that's the price of playing with the big boys, which is exactly what I said it when Harper spent nearly a Billion on the G-8 summit.
The cost of these things is the price of doing business.
However, as with Harper's event costs, there are certainly places where costs could have been cut - like McKenna spending nearly $7K on a photographer - a staffer could have used a digital camera almost as well at zero cost.
Same goes with these three pigs at the trough - sounds like they didn't get the memo to watch what you expense, which after Bev Oda's $16 orange juice a few years back, should have been common sense. With any luck, they'll be forced to either pay it back or shamed into quitting.