Documents obtained under Access to Information laws show that in the summer of 2017, there were serious discussions about installing a helipad at Harrington Lake, the official cottage of Canada’s prime ministers.
Documents obtained under Access to Information laws show that in the summer of 2017, there were serious discussions about installing a helipad at Harrington Lake, the official cottage of Canada’s prime ministers.
For a guy who is always ranting about global warming, he sure burns a lot of fuel.
You silly. Rules are for all the little people…
I’m betting there is a new yacht hidden somewhere in the PMO files. I mean Turdeau might want to cruise around the St Lawrence.
Not just one yacht, check out Sheila Gunn Reid’s report on therebel.media on the waste of many boats, all kinds!!
Here is the website for more spending
https://www.therebel.media/update-trudeau-demands-organic-garden-apiary-tree-house-with-zip-line-and-more-for-harrington-lake-residence?utm_campaign=rb_04_01_19&utm_medium=email&utm_source=therebel
thanks PES, I was aware of Turdeau’s Harrington lake armada. I was referring to a full blown ocean going yacht.
In the Lilly story one comment hit me “does Trudeau want to be treated like the President.” My response is no……..he wants to be treated better, I think he’d like to never have to face another election……it’s good to be the King.
How much does it cost for a helipad? It’s a slice of concrete x by x feet and somewhat deeper than a regular driveway. Maybe with union workers it’ll cost $1 million.
With every law or program requiring federal bureaucracy to be enlarged, the costs are at least $100,000. / year as office space and “support staff” requires it, and after 10 years those costs are well past $1 million for each person, and viewed as permanent.
Even while all they’re doing is shuffling paper across a desk, declaring their work to be “important” or necessary.
If the gov’t debt is ever to be decreased, it won’t be by skimping out on helipads, it’ll take the work of someone saying this law or program isn’t necessary, it’s outside the scope of the federal gov’t, so we’re going to rescind this law or program, lay off these paper shufflers, and actual cut spending.
Indeed, the real cost of a helipad being installed, is that its maintenance and daily sweeping will become part of the gov’t mandate, with union workers tasked with lifetime pensions to ensure the yellow lines meet gov’t standards of yellowness.
Build 10 helipads. I don’t care. Just unredact the conversations about “who should really be doing this work” and their connection via monetary support to the Librano gov’t of Old Canada.
That’s the crux of it.
addendum:
Perhaps PM Trudeau wants a yacht as well? A nice https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts-for-sale 5 million Euros model?
That spending stops after the remodel, it’s the ongoing costs of having 12 union people maintain it, and over the course of a decade, that cost will take 2-3x of what the original expenditure was… another 20-30 million Euros. All spent, to keep the boat up to Canadian boating standards. Standards, the gov’t writes to maintain itself…
marc, exactly. Helo pad, 3-40K tops. I know one that was put in for about 10K, and is not in use any more, BECAUSE CHOPPERS ARE $$$$$$$$$ vacuums. And it’s the up keep that is the big issue.
I can only imagine with the PM would want for a Windsock
Perhaps the intended use is for visitors, like the Aga Khan, Soros, or a delegation of Chinese “businessmen”?
“who should really be doing this work” and their connection via monetary support to the Librano gov’t of Old Canada.”
*sunlight is the best disinfectant …
PM Payout changed his mind and decided to be careful. With all the ISIS members he’s welcomed back, he realized one of them might have a PTSD episode and shoot the f**ker down.
Maybe if there were a crisis, like a terrorist attack, the idiot would not want to be in sky where he would be an easy target.
We might need him to be on ground transport, it’s not a big drive from Harrington Lake, we have communications. Plus he’s the last one I’d be wanting to make any decisions on how to deal with a crisis, he has no clue, he’d need protection like the rest of us.
BTW, what is he doing to help his definition of the “middle class” and those wishing to join it as he piles more and more punishing taxes on the working poor?
So some people in the NCC or elsewhere discussed building a helipad and then decided, apparently, not to build it… and this is being spun as evidence of Trudeau’s opulent spending habits.
There are far better examples out there to make the case Brian is trying to make. Trying to promote this non story just makes the author look like a moron grasping for straws.
If Turdeau is re-elected the government will buy a helicopter that Turdeau will use. Then they will rapidly build two helipads; one on Rideau Hall grounds, and another at Harrington Lake.
So Tim – you swell could be right, but you seem to have missed all but 3 pages of 68 were redacted. The question that needs to be answered is who requested this ? I am sure the promise of open and transparent government will be fulfilled ” tout suite “. And tommorrw pigs will fly.
So Tim, are you suggesting the idea for the helipad was made by a member of the resistance in the bureaucracy? Just a first time in getting Justin to take a one way flight up before being asked to walk back down?
A better question is why there even is an “official cottage of Canada’s prime ministers”.
Its interesting that a gigantic Mansion complete with servants and nannies is referred to as, “a cottage”… nothing is too expensive or too extravagant for the globalist drama teacher, Turdhole. “Cottage”… heh. Nothing screams out of touch elitist more than when describing a Mansion as a “cottage”.
What? Doesn’t everyone have a heli-pad?
Maybe it’s Soapy’s fault. After all, if Mrs. Trump gets to have a helipad in her back yard, why shouldn’t Canada’s National Hog-caller–I mean, Troubador–have one as well?
“Maybe it’s Soapy’s fault”
Maybe. Too many rides in Aga Khan’s whirly-bird?
However, turdo comes by his entitled attitude quite honestly. I remember when Shaggy Maggie was due to whelp and the press found out that turdo la first was keeping a chauffeured limo running 24/7. His smart-arsed, arrogant response – which the press and most of Canada’s women applauded – was something to the effect that, if he wanted to, he’d keep a locomotive running.
I’ve got one. My yard…..now if I could just get a Jet Ranger
He reminds me of a clergyman’s wife I heard about when her husband served in my mother’s parish.
Mrs. Clergyman believed in being entitled to one’s entitlements, even though the church provided a parsonage as part of the deal. She was aghast that the congregation didn’t shower the both of them, as well as their children, with all sorts of gifts and freebies out of gratitude for the service her husband rendered. He, on the other hand, appeared, by all accounts, to be quite satisfied with what he received.
The more she insisted on those entitlements, the more people ignored her. My mother found her to be quite irritating, though she thought he did a good job.
I eventually met Mrs. Clergyman myself when he was the presiding minister at a church I attended many years ago. I thought she was a bit of a cold fish, but, others than that, rather harmless.
The clerical couple eventually divorced, which came as no surprise to my mother when I told her about it. She always wondered how he put up with the seemingly childish attitude of his ex-wife.
Come on, Turdoo is entitled to his entitlements. Right?
Canadian taxpayers and the nation would be better off if we could confine the Spawn to our lakeside sandbox full time and keep buying him toys if it would keep him from doing what he does in Ottawa.
You mean he actually does something in Ottawa? I always thought he could be replaced by cardboard cutout and that the cutout was the one sitting in the House of Commons. Boy, was I surprised to find out it was him!
My favourite bit,
Of course the answer is yes, if someone is going to pay for the helicopter ride. One must keep up appearances, mustn’t one.
Isn’t it obvious that this SOB is all about image??? He sees the President getting on and off Marine 1 near the White House! Now think about it – why shouldn’t he and sofi get in and out of a helicopter in front of the House of Commons?
Come on, it’s the very least that Canadians can and should provide for “The Office” eh!
Trudeau is entitled to one thing—a fair trial. That’s it.
Of course, a fair trial is the absolute last thing he wants.
The closest thing to a fair trial is the OCT-2019 election, 10 months away.
Tim, do ewe always git up on the stupid side of the bed, or do you do that only 7 days a week, butt not for the rest of the week. Christe you lefties are stupid!!!!
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He is entitled to a kick in the nuts with a frozen cowboy boot.
Who cares about a lousy helipad.
Our beloved PM should have a Boeing 717 Air Force One waiting for him whenever he needs it,with a 12,000 foot runway at Harrington Lake if he wants. Trudeau should also have some Genuine Indians to teach the kids canoeing.
Nothing is too good for O.B.P.M. (our beloved PM, which is how he should be referred to from now on,or maybe PBUH,if he really HAS converted to Islam). The more time the PM spends in the air, the more likely it is to clear his beclouded mind.
Which reminds me, just saw a sale on Stinger aac missiles at Canadian Tire,marked down from $5698.00 to $125.00 as boxing week sales continue,if anybody’s interested. No PAL required.
Damn! I paid full price for my Stinger. But they did help me carry it to the car and they provided free rope to tie it to the roof.
As an avid canoeist (I own 4) I’d say from photos I’ve seen bongo might know a little bit about how to paddle a canoe. I have yet to see an indian that can handle a canoe unless you consider a 28′ Rupert House canoe with a 40hp outboard outboard motor. Those they can handle.
ab,I have known hundreds of Indians/Natives/Indigenous/First Nations, grew up in a town with five Rez’s within an hour’s drive.
AND, you are absolutely correct, I have NEVER,EVER seen one of this e folks in a canoe, kayak, or anything BUT a 14 plus foot aluminum Lund or Smokercraft with a 35 hp Johnson.
They seem to have appropriated our culture, but don’t let Justin know that,eh?
don morris, you are thinking too small – nothing but the best for our Dear Leader
A Bombardier Global 7500 reconfigured as a floatplane – do away with the runway as a cost cutting measure.
https://businessaircraft.bombardier.com/en/aircraft/global-7500#!#bba-pdp-section-1
The redacted bits proposed fitting the helicopter with striped pontoons. There was some discussion whether they would clash with the argyle ones on the boat. Hopefully they go with it . My understanding is that Justin will be able to land and explore glacier bases this summer.