Canada's Governor General, Guests Rack Up $100K In-Flight Catering Bill To Dubai

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Governor General, guests rack up $100K in-flight catering bill during Dubai trip

Jun 14, 2022



Governor General and 'friends' $93,117.89 worth of catering services  while aboard RCAF transport plane during March visit to UAE, Qatar,  Kuwait

Canada's vice-regal  racked up a nearly $100,000 catering bill on board a government aircraft  during a recent week-long trip to the Middle East.  An order paper question submitted by Conservative MP Michael Barrett shows  Gov. Gen. Mary Simon and her 29 fellow passengers using $93,117.89 in  catering services aboard an RCAF CC-150 Polaris during her March 16 to March 24 trip to Expo 2020 in Dubai. Simon's was most expensive at $248,127.02, while fuelling the PM's two European trips cost $195,265.47 and $114,225.83. As well, a March 31 flight from Ottawa to Toronto carrying the governor general, husband Whit Fraser and staff rang up nearly $400 in catering. On  a Dec. 16, 2021 CANFORCE ONE flight, the PM and six passengers,  including personal photographer Adam Scotti... Read more ...

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