TERRAZZANO: Taxpayers can’t afford Trudeau’s government globe trotters cdnpoli
It’s tough to tell which part of this trip is the most bizarre.
Maybe it’s that the governor general racked up a $71,000 transportation bill when the hotel was an eight-minute walk from the main conference centre. Then there’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spending $61,000 on hotel rooms in Manhattan during a star-studded, two-day anti-poverty summit.Article content
Canada also flew 276 delegates to the United Nation’s 2021 Climate Conference in Glasgow, Scotland. That was the largest delegation of any G7 country, including the host nation. The conference cost Canadian taxpayers more than $1 million.
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