For heaven's sake, can't the Conservatives spend some of their own money on advertising -- this is getting embarrassing.
Tories spent $108,000 on fiscal update town hall
Federal government spent big to stage June event where Harper discusses efforts to help lift country out of recession
Bruce Cheadle
Ottawa— The Canadian Press
The Harper government spent over $100,000 staging a one-hour event in June to deliver an update on its efforts to help the recession-ravaged economy.
Invoices obtained by The Canadian Press through the Access to Information Act show a nominal bill to taxpayers of $108,000 for the carefully scripted "town hall" meeting in Cambridge, Ont.
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Critics say it's just the latest example of what they're calling a Tory penchant for leveraging public money for partisan gain.
"It fits in with a whole pattern with this government where they are basically using tax dollars to promote themselves to voters," said Gerry Nicholls of the right-wing web portal Libertaspost.com.
"That's clearly wrong. It's clearly a waste of tax dollars."
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4 comments:
If the fiscal update had been presented in the House, which is the normal venue for these things, it wouldn't have cost the taxpayer one cent. Oh how Harper loves to spend taxpayers money on himself & his Con Party.
The $ 50,000 for printing is done by the "woodland creatures in Narnia" in Ottawa for free?
really?
The Hotel 10k and AV equipment 30k, what is outrageous?
So finally the Tories are being caught in consistent money related scandals which demonstrate their partisanship and corruption.,
Now here is the saddest part: in the next poll, the Tories will be at 45% and climbing.
I don't get it but that is what is happening.
Kirbycairo,
Liberals crying wolf does not make it "truthful".
Liberals, Kevin Page publicly admit they can't get the financial information to evaluate the spending properly.
I am not sure how stupid you (Liberal bloggers) think the public really is.
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