That fresh mountain air. Clears the lungs, focuses the mind, don’t you know.
I’m betting there would have been a lot of communities in Alberta that would have begged for a $27k infusion into the local economy more than Banff needed it.
#abgov cabinet retreat to Banff this week will cost taxpayers $26,885.90. 20 ministers & 19 others going for 1-3 days. #ableg #abpoli #yeg pic.twitter.com/Tdt6bkBibe
— Bill Fortier (@BillFortierCTV) January 23, 2017
I’d also like to thank all Canadians for paying for my 2017 Parks Canada Pass. Happy birthday.
Yeah, but our PM is a skier and we need some picks of him skiing so we all know the confab was a success. I am betting we will see such pictures in the news before the end of the week.
$27K for 39 people for 1 to 3 days. In Banff.
They staying at the hostel and bagging meals?
$27K isn’t a lot of money. Worry about the $11 billion deficit, not $27K. The PCs spent $70K for the same thing a few years ago. Banff is part of Alberta too and I’m guessing high unemployment in Calgary has hurt them too.
Beaver fever
Horse hockey pucks
Hot springs
Bare chestie PM selfie
Must be 2017 Banff
My thoughts exactly. There is no way this total is accurate. Where did it come from?
Ever been to / stayed in Banff?
That’s a VERY low-ball cost for Banff in peak ski season.
Indeed, you can’t do Banff in the ‘low season’ at that price because there is NO ‘low season’ there, due to the endless stream of Japanese, Chinese, European, American and ‘rest of Canada’ tourists going there all year round.
I call “el toro caca” on a cost of $27K …these folks aren’t eating at the A & W or drinking wines in a cardboard box. Accommodation (private suites for all) + food 7 beverage count on a minimum $1,000 per day per person …you and I could get it for maybe $700/day/person at this time of year but not those elitists.
I’d suggest keeping the bastards there for a couple of years. They do less damage when they’re away from the legislature.
Banff has the “right” kind of people for them to mingle with, should they find themselves on the street for a moment.
Can’t go to a town where people have regular jobs… or worse yet…. travel to work in the oil patch. Or used to.
Agreed that the figure is not accurate.
Unless they are all cycling or taking electric cars, I doubt if that amount will even cover the transportation costs.
$27,000? for 40 people? I think it’s going to turn out a bit more than that.
They’re staying at Juniper Lodge on the north side of the highway from Banff. The website says rooms go from $140 per night (depends on whether looking up to Mount Norquay or across the valley to Banff townsite), though there are some deals. We stayed there once – room nice but basic, looking at mountain.
Speaking of the oil patch, the news this morning is that Trump will approve the Keystone Pipeline. So Obama blocked the line when Harper was in power and Harper was fighting to get a western terminus for a Canadian pipeline on the West Coast. Now we have a wimp in Ottawa who begrudgingly approved an expansion to an existing pipeline to the west coast but withheld approval of a new west coast pipeline. So now the Alberta oil-patch product will be sent to Texas and the Americans will be getting the benefit of exporting Canadian oil. As I’ve said here numerous times “Canadians are stupid” and this is just another example. We could have built a terminus in Kitimat and exported Canadian oil through a Canadian port for the next fifty years, and profited from the benefits, but no we’re going to go cap in hand and ask the Americans take our oil to the international market.
Actually, if you stay away from the Fairmont, a night in Banff is $180-$250. At $250 x 39 x 3 = $30,000 plus taxes. That leaves about zippo for food & booze, going by these numbers. Maybe they got a “deal” at the Rimrock.
the staff housing behind the Juniper is where the party is…..
You’all are so lucky in Canada- Obamaboy spends more than that before he leaves the people’s house and never mind about Muchella-
Amazing ain’t it.
The media and their comrades of the Liberal Party, assure us that these people are competent to govern Canada.
Then they have to have a retreat,fully funded by the taxpayer, to decide how they are going to spin their failures in light of Trumps election win.
If they were competent there is absolutely no rational reason to have this “retreat”.
But They are entitled to their entitlements.
Not, just not ready, but no chance of ever being ready.