Costs included $37K for staff per diems, hundreds of thousands in lunches and dinners, $1.3K for musical spoons

OTTAWA — $94,000 dinners, $915 flower arrangements and $1,340 for “musical spoons.”

That’s just a small list of expenses incurred for a pair of plush government conferences in 2024 that collectively cost taxpayers $1.03 million, according to government disclosures .

Held last year in Montreal from July 5 to 8, the 49th annual cost taxpayers $631,569 for the three-day event — a figure that includes accommodations, transportation, food, per diems and artistic performances.

$303K hospitality, $156K hotel rooms for Francophone conference

“You know the government is spending way too much money when it could have taken everyone out for lunch at the Keg, ordered the most expensi

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