Canadians will be left agog at yet another preposterous example of the $1.1 billion wasted on the G8/G20 boondoggle when they learn that the Harper Conservatives have splashed $1.1 million of their tax dollars on the wallpaper backdrops that Stephen Harper will stand in front of for his summit photo-ops.
The mounting examples of waste on fake lakes, lighthouse carvings, dry-docked steamboats and sidewalks far from the summit are no laughing matter. Other countries were able to host these summits for a fraction of the cost, but the borrow-and-spend Harper Conservatives just can’t help themselves when it comes to splashing around pork-barrel cash. To show how the Liberals could have hosted these summits for much less, we have designed a wallpaper modeled off of last year’s London G20 backdrop that you can put on your computer desktop – for free!
