The cost to Canadian taxpayers of mandatory quarantine hotels used during the COVID-19 pandemic has already hit nearly $339 million and accounting isn’t finished, according to figures disclosed to date by the federal government.
A Health Canada briefing note, disclosed by Blacklock’s Reporter on July 25, indicates that expenses for each traveller housed in a hotel for 72 hours were at a cost of more than $17,000.
But it always get worse …
‘Pain for Canadian Taxpayers’: Trans Mountain Will Not Be Profitable, Say Analysts
The cost of the Trans Mountain expansion project has reached the point where it cannot make enough money to cover its growing debt. That’s according to several analysts who have been watching the project.
Earlier this year Trans Mountain announced that project costs had ballooned to $30.9 billion—a far cry from the $4.5 billion the federal government paid for the existing Trans Mountain pipeline, expansion project, and terminals in 2018.
