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- Trudeau family's 2019 Xmas vacay cost taxpayers nearly $200Gs - Toronto Sun
- 50 Best Places to Travel in 2019 - Travel+Leisure
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| Trudeau family's 2019 Xmas vacay cost taxpayers nearly $200Gs - Toronto Sun Posted: 28 Jan 2021 12:00 AM PST  The total cost to taxpayers for the prime minister's family vacation was $196,137, according to the federation  Article contentPrime Minister Justin Trudeau's family vacation to Costa Rica in 2019 cost taxpayers nearly $200,000, according to records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. According to one of the federation's blog posts, the PM billed $196,137 for the trip that began on Dec. 20, 2019 and lasted 16 days. The majority of costs are attributed to multiple Canadian Forces business jet flights. "Prime ministers are entitled to take vacations like anyone else, but they're not entitled to stick taxpayers with a six-figure flight bill so they can sip Mai Tais on the beach," said Canadian Taxpayers Association federal director Aaron Wudrick. "It's time to review our policy of prohibiting our prime ministers from flying commercial. If it's safe enough for other world leaders, it should be safe enough for our own." Records show six Challenger 604 jet flights were in the air during the trip for about 34 hours. According to a National Defence Cost Factors Manual: Air Chapter from 2018-2019, it costs $5,543 an hour to operate such an aircraft. The normal flight time for a round trip between Ottawa and San Jose, Costa Rica, is about 11 hours. The total flight cost, according to the federation, was $187,353. The total cost climbed to $196,137, according to the CTF, after accounting for the costs of the flight crews staying at the San Jose Marriott and $1,235 in flight food bills. AdvertisementStory continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article contentAlex Wellstead, press secretary for the Office of the Prime Minister, said Wednesday "as per long-standing government policy and because of security reasons, the prime minister must use one of the Royal Canadian Air Force planes for all his travel, whether on official or personal business." The Department of National Defence claims the flight hours in this case were 5.5 hours for the flight to Costa Rica, and 4.9 hours for the return to Ottawa, for a total of 10.4 hours. "Following the $5,543 per hour from the Cost Factors Manual, this would be a total cost of $57,647," said a department spokesperson Wednesday. "There were additional transits that resulted from the squadron's decision to accommodate holiday leave plans for the crew. These additional hours were flown out of the squadron's training budget." AdvertisementStory continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article contentAs for food and beverages costs, the department claims they can vary and are dependent on several different factors, such as catering costs may be higher in locations where food costs or the exchange rate are higher. Publicly-available data showed that on top of the Trudeau's outbound and flight back to Canada, there were four subsequent flights by two separate RCAF Challengers between Ottawa and Costa Rica during their vacation. In 2017, Trudeau came under fire after it was revealed his vacation to the Aga Khan's private island in the Bahamas cost taxpayers more than $215,000. Conservative PM Stephen Harper faced similar criticism when he was in office for taking vacations using military aircraft that cost taxpayers thousands an hour to fly, including to Boston for a Stanley Cup playoffs. In 2011, Harper spent at least $45,000 of taxpayers' dollars, according to documents obtained by the CBC, flying to New York for a Yankees game and broadway show. The majority of costs came from the use of the Challenger Jet at $34,633 with $11,026 spent on expenses for staffers to accompany Harper on the private family trip. — With files by Bryan Passifiume |
| 50 Best Places to Travel in 2019 - Travel+Leisure Posted: 12 Dec 2018 12:00 AM PST  Related: See the 50 Best Places to Travel in 2020 When it comes to singling out the best vacation spots and compiling our annual year-end list of the places we're most excited about in the coming months, narrowing down the field is easier said than done. We pore over press releases, tourism statistics, and our overflowing spreadsheets of hotel openings, restaurant debuts, and new flight routes before deciding where to go on vacation. We consider the anecdotal evidence: Where are our friends and families going on vacation? What vacation destinations are we seeing on Instagram? Which places seem to be part of today's travel zeitgeist? And, as always, we turn to our network of travel experts for vacation ideas — trusted writers, hospitality professionals, the travel advisors that make up T+L's A-List — to see where people are actually going, and which places are the ones to watch in the coming year. This year's list of the best vacation spots spans the globe, from exciting southern hemisphere cities like Santiago, Chile, and Brisbane, Australia, to harder-to-reach regions like Langkawi, Malaysia and the Danish Riviera. There are the new capitals of culture — Nairobi, Kenya, home to a emergent design scene, or Panama City, with a deluge of forward-thinking restaurants and bars — and the tourism destinations that are back in fighting form after natural disasters or human conflict, including Puerto Rico, the Turquoise Coast of Turkey, Egypt, and Montecito, California. And, of course, there are the destinations that we haven't heard much about, but certainly will soon — places like India's remote Andaman Islands, or the art and history-filled emirate of Sharjah, in the U.A.E., or the under-the-radar wine scene in Etyek, Hungary. After all, isn't dreaming about places totally new to us — and seeing old favorites in a new light — why we travel in the first place? Here are Travel + Leisure's 50 best places to travel in 2019. If you already know where you're going in the year ahead, share your vacation destination picks with us on social media with #TLBestPlaces. |
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