{"id":1062,"date":"2010-05-27T08:25:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T12:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2010-05-27T08:25:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T12:25:10","slug":"another-example-of-big-government-big-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1062","title":{"rendered":"Another example of Big Government = Big Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our Big Government comes with unthinkable costs. Take for example the $1.1 BILLION cost of hosting the world\u2019s leaders for a few days in June. CBC Reports “Summit costs hit $1.1B”: <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 The cost of hosting the G8 and G20 summits next month in Ontario now stands at $1.1 billion and further outlays are likely, federal documents show.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 The price tag includes $160 million for hospitality, infrastructure, food safety and extra staffing. That amount is in addition to the $933-million security bill the Tories revealed earlier this week.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/politics\/story\/2010\/05\/26\/g8-g20-security-summit-toews.html<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n


\nThis is truly unbelievable at a time when our citizens are finding their way back from the economic meltdown of 2008 \u2013 and still face unknown hardship with the global economy teetering from one unstable situation to another. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s Pierre Bourque\u2019s (www.bourque.org<\/a>) comment on this Big Government shocker:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Two months ago, the Tory government told Canadians that security costs for the two summits would be less than $200-million. In just eight weeks, those projections have nearly quintupled. The Harper government should be shame faced over either the sudden escalation of costs or their initial less-than-forthcoming estimates. And they might want to think twice before criticizing cost overruns by the previous Liberal government, such as the $1-billion gun registry.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Message to the PM:\u00a0 <\/span>Our government shouldn\u2019t be so fast to host these international affairs when there is such a dear price to pay.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Our Big Government comes with unthinkable costs. Take for example the $1.1 BILLION cost of hosting the world\u2019s leaders for a few days in June. CBC Reports “Summit costs hit $1.1B”: \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 The cost of hosting the G8 and G20 summits next month in Ontario now stands at $1.1 billion and further outlays…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}