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PM’s frequent family vacations cost taxpayers well over $200,000 each time: CTF
From the Canadian Taxpayers Federation
Trudeau’s latest Tofino vacation cost taxpayers $287,000
Author: Ryan Thorpe
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s vacation to Tofino, B.C., this August cost taxpayers at least $287,285, according to access-to-information records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
That brings the total cost for the three vacations Trudeau has taken this year to more than $678,000.
“Ordinary Canadians get to go on a big vacation every few years, but this is the third vacation Trudeau took this year and each one cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars,” said Franco Terrazzano, CTF Federal Director. “If Trudeau skipped just one of these vacations and instead stayed at his taxpayer-funded cottage at Harrington Lake, then he’d save taxpayers what most people make over a couple of years.”
Trudeau spent Aug. 10-18, 2023, in Tofino with his family. The Prime Minister’s Office told the press the Trudeaus would be paying for their own stay.
But RCMP security costs alone cost taxpayers at least $287,285, with the Mounties warning “additional payments may still be processed.”
That doesn’t include potential costs from the Privy Council Office or the Royal Canadian Airforce, as the family flew to B.C. on a government Bombardier Challenger jet.
Trudeau currently finds himself in hot water over another vacation, as CBC News reported this week that the prime minister’s recent Easter visit to Montana, U.S., cost taxpayers significantly more than disclosed.
In response to an order paper question from Conservative MP Luc Berthold, the government reported to Parliament two weeks ago that Trudeau’s Easter vacation only cost taxpayers $23,846.
But that figure left out RCMP security costs, which pushed the bill up to $228,839.
Trudeau’s Christmas trip to a private resort in Jamaica, from Dec. 26, 2022, to Jan. 4, 2023, cost taxpayers $162,000.
Trudeau’s three vacations in the past year have cost Canadians more than $678,000. And there’s still three months left in the year.
“Trudeau’s vacations over the past year cost taxpayers the same amount as a nice family home in the suburbs,” Terrazzano said. “Most Canadians will be baffled by how expensive Trudeau’s vacations are for taxpayers and rightly demand the government figure out a way to bring these costs down.”
This isn’t the first time Trudeau’s vacations have sparked controversy.
Trudeau’s 2019 family vacation to Costa Rica cost taxpayers about $200,000.
Trudeau’s 2016 Christmas vacation to a private Bahamian island owned by the billionaire Aga Khan, breached government ethics rules and cost taxpayers $271,000.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has been providing massive funds in the name of COVID despite the fact that Joe Biden admitted the ‘pandemic’ was over by 2022.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is withdrawing $11.4 billion in COVID funding to state and local health departments, non-government groups, and international recipients about two years after the U.S. government declared the COVID-19 “national emergency” over.
“The COVID-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a non-existent pandemic that Americans moved on from years ago,” HHS director of communications Andrew Nixon said in a statement, NBC News reported.
“HHS is prioritizing funding projects that will deliver on President Trump’s mandate to address our chronic disease epidemic and Make America Healthy Again.“
Despite the fact that former President Joe Biden admitted in 2022 that the COVID “pandemic” was over, Health and Human Services (HHS) has been continuing to allocate funds for COVID testing, “vaccines,” and “global COVID projects,” according to CDC talking points.
The funding cut comes as millions of dollars for other initiatives, including vaccine hesitancy research and HIV prevention, are slashed under new HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
HHS has made the greatest funding cutbacks government-wide, according to the Department of Government Efficiency’s website.
Dr. Robert Malone argued in 2023 that the only reason the Biden administration decided to end the national COVID “emergency” when it did is because of the congressional legislation seeking that end.
“The bottom line is that the imperial U.S. administrative state will never give up these unconstitutional powers until forced to do so,” Malone wrote.
For years, major corporations bragged about their wonderful Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs. They’re good for business and morally correct, they said. So why are they now cutting those programs?
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