Government releases departmental spending reports for G8, G20 summits
Posted November 5, 2010 7:38 pm.
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TORONTO, Ont. – The federal government is out with new departmental spending reports for the June G8 and G20 summits.
The reports showed that the government spent at least $86,000 on zipper pulls and lapel pins for the meetings, and $14,000 on $100 a piece pens for world leaders.
While critics have blasted the spending, officials are bragging that the summits are expected to come in under their whopping $1.1 billion budget.
Before the summit, many taxpayers complained about glowsticks and a fake lake, which was created in an indoor environment for the visiting leaders.
