This Is Where Canadian Taxpayers Money Is Going To!!!!!!!!

[zanner69]

Craig Smith stumbled on Ottawa's only detailed, central record of government travel. The website is intended for civil servants, and lists approved hotels and their prices. It also estimates how many rooms the government rents annually, in locations worldwide.

It reveals that Canadian taxpayers pay for hundreds of hotel rooms every year, in exotic or resort locations.

Here are some examples from 2003/2004:

800 rooms in Cancun, Mexico
636 rooms in Barbados
523 rooms in San Jose, Costa Rica
290 rooms in Marrakech, Morocco
192 rooms in Casablanca, Morrocco
167 rooms in Montego Bay, Jamaica
107 rooms in Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, Mexico
98 rooms in Bermuda
93 rooms in Nassau, Bahamas

The government estimates show, on average, Ottawa pays for 439 hotel rooms every single night of the year, outside Canada and the U.S. That's some 160,000 room nights annually.

In 2004 and 2005, taxpayers shelled out $66,687 at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort in Hawaii. Last year, Ottawa rented 65 rooms at the British Colonial Nassau Hotel, in the Bahamas, for $11,585.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNe...whistleblower_060209/20060209?hub=CTVNewsAt11

where the fuck is accountability here????????????

 

[johnhenrygalt]

In September 2003 Cancún hosted a WTO summit. I don't know how large Canada's delegation was, but that meeting alone may have accounted for alot of the Cancún rooms.