Globe and Mail: Liberals to blame for billion-dollar G20 tab?

[tuvor]

Blaming Michael Ignatieff’s Liberals is the latest defence in the Conservative quiver of excuses to try to explain the massive $1-billion security tab for next month’s G8/G20 summits.

As the public outcry grows against the huge cost for the three-day meeting, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews told CTV’s Question Period yesterday that using the military – which would have been a much cheaper option than the RCMP – would have provoked political outrage from the Liberals.

“You know, of course, what the opposition parties would say, the Liberals, they would say the army in streets with guns,” said Mr. Toews.

In part says Mr. Toews decisions around security were “political decisions.”

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[JBoy]

1. Their fear of Liberals drove them to a more expensive option.

Interesting who the Conservative Government perceives as the real "threat" when it comes to security.

[daleo]

2. Man that's lame

Pathetic, really.