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Bill for Stephen Harper’s annual Arctic trips tops $3.4M

Canadians paid more than $2.65 million, excluding RCMP costs, to send Stephen Harper on his annual northern sojourns between 2006 and 2013.

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper holds up a permafrost core sample as he tours Yukon College in Whitehorse in August 2014.


OTTAWA—The Canadian public paid more than $2.6 million — excluding security costs — to send Prime Minister Stephen Harper on his annual northern trips between 2006 and 2013.

Federal departments and agencies reported $2,650,442 in costs for the August Arctic trip, which Harper has made every year since taking power in 2006.

Alex Boutilier
Alex Boutilier
Alex Boutilier is a former national politics reporter with the Toronto Star's Ottawa bureau.
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