Are we having fun yet kids! Million dollar indoor Muskoka ponds, 122 million dollar sound guns, half million dollar Huntsville gazebos and on and on! This is going to be a great tourist promotion for Toronto! And if you believe that I have an island you might want to buy. Or, oh yea, how about announcing an untendered 16 billion dollar F-35 fighter plane purchase just before the big press conference.
Some interesting sidelights:
Why use the convention center when you got an empty CBC building across the street for the event. It has sound stages that can be turned into anything you want at an in house price. Oh yeah, were into the private sector.
How about using the Exhibition grounds. Self enclosed for easy security and there’s a lake right in front of the grounds. Easy access to hotels. Oh yeah, public space that won’t cost much.
And don’t forget that the big cheeses in the financial district are sending their worker bees to hives that have been specially adapted in Mississauga and environs so they won’t be interrupted in their daily foraging for honey. Guess who’s going to pay for that? You bet ya! It is a cost of doing business and will be a nice extra tax write off! Thanks Steven Harper! But the small businesses downtown? Nada!
The gall of The Gang of Deceit: To pass this off as a Tourist Attraction! They will never give us an accounting of the true cost. You can bet your ass that every level of enforcement has padded and padded their budgets. This is the way the law and order faction of the ‘new conservative’ party is going to get their ‘fig’ or bachshesh or grift or pay off!
Go to the alternative summit at Massey Hall. That’s were democracy will be exercised!
