The RCMP has earmarked $275,000 a month to cover hotel bills for officers
Extra Mounties guarding Parliament Hill ring up hotel bills
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/05/26/extra-mounties-guarding-parliament-hill-ring-up-hotel-bills.html
But that influx of officers has meant a big hotel bill for the national police force. In a projection done last November, the RCMP budgeted $1.2 million for hotel accommodation up to March, 2015 and another $2 million for the period April to December 2015, according to documents obtained by the Star under access to information legislation. With tax, the RCMP earmarked a total of $3.6 million, or about $275,000 a month for hotel bills.
Asked about the hotel bills, a spokesperson for the force said the figure was only a projected expense.
“This is not the actual cost spent, but was part of an initial purchase requisition prior to negotiations,” Brigitte Mineault said in an email.
Have to like that last line, "negotiations". Maybe these estimates are too low... Why don't they just buy a house or two in the suburbs of Ottawa and have them all live there, $275k a month for hotel costs is a bit excessive.
Heard yesterday on CBC that the RCMP were responsible for a $175,000 airplane cost for five total travellers for the governor general when he flew to Saudi Arabia in January. Evan Solomon grudgingly read this report that someone else at CBC had written, he almost didn't want to report that the RCMP were responsible yet again for massive costs to the lowly taxpayer. The guy tossed beach balls at Vic Toews during a supposed interview a few years ago and regularly has former Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day on his show. If this RCMP coddling is journalism he should watch America news sometime where even higher ups in the FBI and CIA are asked for direct responses to questions of accountability.
With the estimates as high as 160 RCMP officers utilized to conduct the terrorist charges against two wackos from Ottawa and one has to wonder how Bob Paulson can state with a straight face that they are short on resources.
With CSIS and RCMP on the payroll who needs a military? Hell, what country could afford it?