Federal Government Paid for CEOs Accompanying Harper to China

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Recent reports claim that Conservative federal government bared expenses of numerous top executives of country’s versatile industry while they accompanied Prime Minister Harper on his visit to China last year. This move was deemed as a good investment by the business community as the trip symbolized a changed approach by Stephen Harper, who previously avoided the concept of leading big trade offensives abroad.

It was revealed by The Public Accounts of Canada that Harper’s wife, Laureen Harper, and his personal stylist, Michelle Muntean, tagged along with him on the government’s tab from 2006 and 2011. A major exclusion to that was the Prime Minister’s trip to China last February, when numerous delegations visited China’s three different cities, including almost 30 executives of major oil, agricultural and manufacturing companies. Additionally, there were two dozen members of the Chinese-Canadian cultural community to accompany the delegation. In comparison to this trip, Harper’s previous trip of 2009, i.e. Harper’s first visit to China, was accompanied by eight people, including Laureen, his stylist and four Chinese-Canadian businesspeople.

It was confirmed by The Foreign Affairs Department that the expense bared of official delegates included local transportation, accommodation, meals and “miscellaneous expenses.” Hence, an approximate estimation for 2012 non-governmental participants meant an average of $1,200 per person. It was confirmed by almost all corporations and associations that the government did partly pay for a segment of their expenses. The corporations and associations included Bombardier, Cenovus Nuclear Energy, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and Cameco .

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  1. Let’s be clear: Another omnibus bill has been jammed down Canada’s throat. Elections Canada is investigating vote-suppression claims in 56 out of 308 federal rcomment_IDings across the country. The corrupt F-35 billion dollar program. The entire Senate is about to be audited.

    What else do you call it in a democracy when every facet of the government — save one, the Parliamentary Budget Office — knowingly and repeatedly understated the true costs of the publicly funded F*35 program by billions of dollars? An accounting error? Yeah, the kind Enron’s accountants made.

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