The Pope’s expensive visit

Fifty-five million for a six-day visit — $9 million a day? The RCMP are claiming a cost for their services at $3 million a day. How can anyone justify costs like this? If there were 200 officers assigned to this visit, that works out to be $15,000 per officer, per day. It sounds like many are cooking the books on this to defend budget increases. Terry Horne, Hamilton