Gov. Gen. Mary Simon’s $1.1M-trip cost ‘similar’ to other high-level visits: officials – National
The $1.1-million price tag attached to Gov. Gen. Mary Simon‘s eight-day trip to the Middle East earlier this year is “similar” to costs of other high-level visits of this nature, MPs heard on Monday.
That’s according to chief of protocol of Canada Stewart Wheeler, the civil servant tasked with overseeing official, state and diplomatic visits at home and abroad, who made the comment during a House of Commons government operations and estimates committee meeting.
“I can reassure the committee that the overall cost … of this visit was in line with similar costs for high-level visits of this nature in