Governor general's Middle East trip cost taxpayers $1.3 million
“Politicians and bureaucrats need to show respect for taxpayers’ hard-earned money and that means they need to stop wasting so much and proactively post receipts online.”
OTTAWA, ON: The governor general’s week-long trip to the Middle East in March cost taxpayers $1.3 million, according to documents posted on the Government Operations Committee website.
“What value are taxpayers getting for this $1.3-million trip to the Middle East?” asked Franco Terrazzano, Federal Director of the CTF. “Can the governor general prove that spending $1.3 million to go to Expo 2020 in Dubai was a better use of taxpayers’ money than hiring more nurses or helping struggling taxpayers?”