G7 summit cost tops $200 million in budget estimates

[AncientMuse]

No. They could have accomplished the exact same thing through email or Skype.

No.

Some things need to be done face to face, up close and personal.

There are some things in life that the internet just can't measure up.

 

[Hoid]

G7 summit cost tops $200 million in budget estimates | CBC News

I challenge anyone to tell me what they could not have discussed at that summit through e-mail or Skype. Sure there could be interpretation barriers, but they could easily just invite the interpreters to the e-mail or Skype session too, no?

Seriously, 200 million for seven world leaders to meet up for a meeting?

I know this is pointless but...do you honestly think that this summit is a meeting between 7 people?

 

[White_Unifier]

I know this is pointless but...do you honestly think that this summit is a meeting between 7 people?

Not literally. I'm sure they invite all kinds of experts on myriad subjects that they'll be discussing too. yet even that for the most part could be exchanged via MS Word attachments to emails. Maybe just meet once a year at the UN. Good enough.

 

[Hoid]

Good enough for you perhaps.

I am guessing you have never been in a delegation.

 

[Bar Sinister]

Absolutely necessary. There aren't hookers on skype.

Or free crab cakes.

 

[Hoid]

I wonder if there will be any benefit to the local economy?

 

[White_Unifier]

I wonder if there will be any benefit to the local economy?

Maybe, but only at the expense of the national economy.

 

[Hoid]

Maybe?

 

[White_Unifier]

Maybe?

But only at the expense of the national economy.

Oh, and please allow me to clarify that 'maybe.' I'd lived in Charlevoix for almost a year many years ago. They have a very small population. Something as big as the G7 could cause labour and other shortages and price increases. We're not talking about a minor economic stimulus but a major infusion of money into such a small community as to cause temporary economic disequilibrium.

 

[Twin_Moose]

But only at the expense of the national economy.

Oh, and please allow me to clarify that 'maybe.' I'd lived in Charlevoix for almost a year many years ago. They have a very small population. Something as big as the G7 could cause labour and other shortages and price increases. We're not talking about a minor economic stimulus but a major infusion of money into such a small community as to cause temporary economic disequilibrium.

I think you better sit down for this

Taxpayers to shell out $605M for G7 meeting

 

[White_Unifier]

I think you better sit down for this

Taxpayers to shell out $605M for G7 meeting

That's not a stimulus. For a small economy like that of Charlevoix, that could cause labour and other shortages, temporary localized inflation outstripping wages, and then a crash once the G7 leaves. That's not necessarily good for the local economy. That just destabilizes it.

 

[petros]

$150M for the conference $50M for pepperspray and cop overtime for wrangling protestors.

 

[Twin_Moose]

$150M for the conference $50M for pepperspray and cop overtime for wrangling protestors.

A lot of inflated budgets #'s in there I wonder how many kickbacks are being unaccounted for

 

[petros]

18 year old+ Scotch ain't cheap. The liquor bill has gotta be pretty crazy.

 

[Johnnny]

That's a lot of money too meet up and accomplish nothing.

 

[White_Unifier]

18 year old+ Scotch ain't cheap. The liquor bill has gotta be pretty crazy.

Wait a minute. I thought they were supposed to be discussing important public-policy matters. How are they supposed to do that effectively when drunk? That might explain a lot.

That's a lot of money too meet up and accomplish nothing.

Now now, they might accomplish some things, just not anything I couldn't see them accomplish more efficiently over Skype and email.

 

[Hoid]

But only at the expense of the national economy.

Oh, and please allow me to clarify that 'maybe.' I'd lived in Charlevoix for almost a year many years ago. They have a very small population. Something as big as the G7 could cause labour and other shortages and price increases. We're not talking about a minor economic stimulus but a major infusion of money into such a small community as to cause temporary economic disequilibrium.

actually it is going to benefit the national economy even more.

just ask Stevie Harper

btw Canada is going to be spending $600 million this year. The $200 mil for this is only the start

 

[pgs]

Wait a minute. I thought they were supposed to be discussing important public-policy matters. How are they supposed to do that effectively when drunk? That might explain a lot.



Now now, they might accomplish some things, just not anything I couldn't see them accomplish more efficiently over Skype and email.

What do pretty people do when there are no hands to shake or cameras to smile to ? Besides spend free money .

 

[darkbeaver]

G7 summit cost tops $200 million in budget estimates | CBC News

I challenge anyone to tell me what they could not have discussed at that summit through e-mail or Skype. Sure there could be interpretation barriers, but they could easily just invite the interpreters to the e-mail or Skype session too, no?

Seriously, 200 million for seven world leaders to meet up for a meeting?

There was no discussion, two hundred million ain,t too much not to have a disscussion, so it in fact would have been the great party hardly discussed at all, and the work produced praised by it,s 200 million price tag, no one would believe nothing was acomplished