Canada Will Spend $885 Million on Security for G-8 and G-20 Summits
May 28th, 2010Via: AP:
Canada’s Conservative government says the nearly $1 billion it plans to spend on security at the G-8 and G-20 summits next month is worth it.
Canada has budgeted up to $930 Canadian (US$885 million) for the summits. By comparison, the stated amount spent by Pittsburgh on security for last September’s G-20 summit was US$12.4 million. London’s stated amount for the G-20 last year was US$10.9 million.
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said Thursday the cost is expensive but the security “worth it.”
Toews argues that hosting separate summits back-to-back is unprecedented.
Canada is hosting the G-20 economic summit on June 26-27 in Toronto. The G-8 is meeting in Huntsville, Ontario, a day earlier.
that angry gay teen group was so efficiently able to defeat the LRAD weapon and all the out of town police in Pittsburgh merely by going to a different sector of town, so I guess they might need 70X the spending to fully secure Toronto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjJo8FKoT0E