Canadian taxpayers spent at least $1 million hosting King Charles III, who was the Prince of Wales at the time, when he visited Canada earlier this year.
The RCMP provided a breakdown of the nearly $450,000 in costs it incurred for his three-day visit in May, accompanied by Queen Consort Camilla, who was then the Duchess of Cornwall.
Policing costs for the most recent royal visit were far lower than what RCMP spent in 2016 when Prince William and his wife Kate, the Prince and Princess of Wales, toured Canada.So far, the biggest bill from the King and Queen Consort’s trip this year was related to travel. The Department of National Defence reported spending about $568,000 to transport the royal couple using military aircraft.
The department of Canadian Heritage was in charge of hosting the royals during their travels to Newfoundland, Ottawa and the Northwest Territories. It picked up the tab for thousands in hospitality costs as they celebrated the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, who died in September. “It is customary for hospitality costs, including those for Clarence House staff, to be assumed by the host country,” the document read, referring to the King’s London residence.
For a welcoming ceremony in Newfoundland, $3,000 was paid to have Deantha Edmunds-Ramsay, the country’s first Inuk opera singer, to perform for the royal couple. Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples had been cited as a major focus of the trip.
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