Governor General, guests rack up $100K in-flight catering bill during Dubai trip
Jun 14, 2022
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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,
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