Harper's 1.2 Million India Limo tab.
Channel: landlogger
Date: 24/12/2013

Thanks to   http://www.youtube.com/user/Neurolanis     for remix permission.

 The RCMP said it paid $1,200,260 to the Canadian Forces to transport two armoured Cadillacs and a bulletproof SUV to India in November of last year. This figure was provided to CBC News in documents released under the Access to Information Act. The question of whether the cars were even necessary dogged Harper during his news conferences in India, especially after it emerged that the Indian government had offered to provide cars.

Spokesperson Andrew MacDougall said that the RCMP makes the "operational decisions," thus placing the blame on them. The RCMP has never released a threat assessment to explain this decision.

Is there some dire threat to the prime minister that we are unaware of? There is no evidence that armed RCMP escorted Harper during his time in India, and as the country does have armored vehicles of its own, this cost seems unnecessary. Harper has used his own cars on foreign visits before, in Haiti and Afghanistan.

The armoured limo itself was built by Harper's request. Before Harper, Canadian prime ministers never used armoured limos.

Stephen Harper's 2012 Indian limo tab rises to $1.2M
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/steph...

RCMP ships Harper's armoured Cadillac to India
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-...

Harper brings armoured Cadillac to India
(Mentions cars taken to Haiti and Afghanistan)
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/11/...

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