desertdude wrote:
I think 7400 for a meeting of is the cost cutting. Friends have thrown wedding recptions for about a 100 people here with a 2 dish menus in 3/4 star hotels for more.
I don't see what the uproar is about, unless just because your against someone and nit pick on everything they do for no other reason than for the sake of just doing it.
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Town halls for Privy Council Office staff were inaugurated by the Conservatives in 2006 and have rapidly risen in cost over the years from $19,000 to $42,000, the bill for the latest gathering.
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at the posh Westin Hotel in downtown Ottawa, where a meeting room for the affair cost taxpayers about $5,000 an hour.
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A spokesman for the Privy Council Office said the town hall came in under budget, at $42,077, partly because hospitality costs amounted to only $6,520 for "coffee, tea, bottled juice and pastries."
The point is because they do a lot of talking about reducing wasteful government spending, but they do exactly the opposite.
CKA Elite 
