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Title: Feds spent $6,662 on photos of Catherine McKenna and her staff during Paris climate change talks
Category: Environmental
Posted By: N_Fiddledog
Date: 2016-08-23 17:26:54
Canadian

[N_Fiddledog]

Also:

3 bureaucrats spent $12Gs dining in Paris, and we picked up the bill

http://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."

[Thanos]

People like us get irritated by things like this because we weren't raised as children to be cunning or skeezy enough to get in on scams and schemes like this. And too many people in government were brought up to act and think that way, either at home or they learned it in law school. It's difficult when you're told to be nice when the evidence suggests that being the exact opposite seems to result in the greatest rewards.

[bootlegga]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

Also:

3 bureaucrats spent $12Gs dining in Paris, and we picked up the bill

http://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.

[bootlegga]

Thanos Thanos:

People like us get irritated by things like this because we weren't raised as children to be cunning or skeezy enough to get in on scams and schemes like this. And too many people in government were brought up to act and think that way, either at home or they learned it in law school. It's difficult when you're told to be nice when the evidence suggests that being the exact opposite seems to result in the greatest rewards.

When I worked for the government in the past, what I saw was that most of the average peons would never think of expensing crap like this - it was almost always those in the high echelon positions who have spent years with their snout in the trough gorging themselves on the taxpayers teat who do it. That's because, as you noted, most people are decent hardworking folks, even if they work for the government.

Alison Redford was a perfect example, someone who spent decades wining and dining on only the best when she worked as a lawyer and simply assumed that taxpayers should pay for the same kind of lifestyle that her corporate clients always had provided.

[Thanos]

Looking like Trudeau's gang will have far more in common with Redford than Redford did with Harper. Going by Philpott and McKenna's example it took less than a year to start racking up the bullshit claims. At least Bev Oda was polite enough to wait a few years before she started ordering $16 per glass orange juice at whatever five-star hotel she was booked at.

Goes with the territory I suppose. They're identical to the real richlings in almost every aspect and attribute. They pretty much think the rest of us are shit, that we're just doormats for them to wipe their feet on whenever they feel like it, and there's not much evidence to suggest that they even care about us knowing that they think about us that way.