• Canada: Conservative government builds fake cottage scene indoors, includes lake and canoe
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[IMG]http://www.cubeupload.com/files/edce00ss20100607190940.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.cubeupload.com/files/abe800ss20100607191008.png[/IMG] In a gigantic waste of taxpayer money, the Harper administration [b][url=http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/06/07/g8-summit-cost-question-period.html]has built a fake outdoor scene inside the Toronto Direct Energy Centre to take photos for the G8 summit being held hundreds of kilometres away[/url][/b] instead of just going to the actual site of the summit and taking pictures there. [quote]Opposition MPs are ridiculing the Conservative government for spending almost $2 million to create an artificial indoor lake and cottage backdrop inside a Toronto media centre for this month's G8 and G20 summits. Summit organizers are constructing the artificial lake inside Toronto's Direct Energy Centre to showcase the actual site of the G8 summit hundreds of kilometres away in Huntsville, Ont., on June 25-26. The temporary media centre will host all but about 150 of the estimated 3,000 journalists from around the world covering the G8, as well as the G20 summit in Toronto's downtown core on June 27-28.[/quote] What does the fake landscape include? [quote][highlight]Cottage scene includes canoes, deck chairs[/highlight] Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe labelled the G8 meeting a "tourist event," while NDP Leader Jack Layton called it a "billion-dollar boondoggle that is ballooning" under the Conservatives' wasteful mismanagement. "We've got a government here that has to create an artificial lake, when Canada has more lakes than just about any other country in the world," Layton told the House. "It's the taxpayers who are going to end up at the bottom of the fake lake, with a fake Muskoka behind them." ... The Toronto Sun reported the planned lake site — part of a larger "Canadian corridor" at the media centre — includes mocked-up canoes and Muskoka chairs, as well as large flat-screen televisions showing scenes of Muskoka's cottage country.[/quote] :canada:
Canada doesn't need more lakes fuck.
Meh, America is worse.
[QUOTE=MegaChalupa;22452311]Meh, America is worse.[/QUOTE] Yeah, but you don't dig fake grand canyons and erect plastic redwoods all over the place.
I don't see pictures in the link, are there actually pictures of the result of this bright idea?
And I thought the US was the only nation that throws money away.
Jesus christ Harper, what the fuck do you think you're doing? [editline]09:20PM[/editline] No, really. How could this at all be seen as a good idea?
what
Maybe they should, I don't know,[b] put money towards fixing the worlds economy?[/b]
They could be sending me more syrup with all that money. Shame on Canada.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;22452334]Yeah, but you don't dig fake grand canyons and erect plastic redwoods all over the place.[/QUOTE] Shhh! Don't fucking give them ideas!
Does anyone else just think he "looks" Canadian? I don't know what it is, but if I didn't know who he was, I'd still probably say he's from Canada.
Kind of reminds me of that fake city Kim Jong Ill built
stephen harper sure isn't getting any sharper
They needed to build one to take pictures on? the ones they have aren't good enough already?
Here's an idea, why not actually take the reporters out to the real fucking site? Wouldn't cost 1.9 million dollars.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;22452334]Yeah, but you don't dig fake grand canyons and erect plastic redwoods all over the place.[/QUOTE] California spent $324,000,000 on a 14-mile bus-way that was completed in 2004. They are currently working on a $215,000,000 4-mile extension of the line. That's $10179.92 per foot.
Canada's Economic Action Plan: Making people think Canada looks pretty.
I thought Conservatism was about spending LESS money.
[QUOTE=Foda;22453651]I thought Conservatism was about spending LESS money.[/QUOTE] It's funny when the NDP (a left-wing party, likely classified as "socialist" by American standards) is criticizing the conservatives for being wasteful. I guess conservatism is about spending less, but funnelling what you DO spend into useless shit while left-wing politics is about spending more but actually benefiting the people with it.
[QUOTE=Second-gear-of-mgear;22452649]Does anyone else just think he "looks" Canadian? I don't know what it is, but if I didn't know who he was, I'd still probably say he's from Canada.[/QUOTE] [img]http://www.cubeupload.com/files/2d7800canadian.jpg[/img]
I'd hate to see his credit card bill.
snup
[QUOTE=MegaChalupa;22453216]California spent $324,000,000 on a 14-mile bus-way that was completed in 2004. They are currently working on a $215,000,000 4-mile extension of the line. That's $10179.92 per foot.[/QUOTE] Who cares about Cali, This is about Canada. Cali is the worst state anyways. I'd love to see what harper is gonna do with the lake after the photos.
[QUOTE=Johnnsen;22453787][img]http://www.cubeupload.com/files/2d7800canadian.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] lol
[QUOTE=Aide;22454116]Who cares about Cali, This is about Canada. Cali is the worst state anyways. I'd love to see what harper is gonna do with the lake after the photos.[/QUOTE] Worst state? Stop believing everything you hear you tool, California is a very VERY nice state, we have some problems going on, but who the hell doesn't?
[QUOTE=Aide;22454116] I'd love to see what harper is gonna do with the lake after the photos.[/QUOTE] Dump 1,000 barrels of oil in it to create another re-enactment. [editline]08:04PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Kinversulath;22453518]Canada's Economic Action Plan: Making people think Canada looks pretty.[/QUOTE] Canada actually does look like that
[QUOTE=Aide;22454116]Cali is the worst state anyways. [/QUOTE] Hahahahahahahahaha . . . . No.
Cali may have broken education funds, but it's pretty safe otherwise. At least, where I live it is...Sure there are bad places, but what state doesn't have bad places?
[QUOTE=Gummylamb;22454218]Worst state? Stop believing everything you hear you tool, California is a very VERY nice state, we have some problems going on, but who the hell doesn't?[/QUOTE] I think he's referring to california as being the worst state in terms of laws and wasting money. In which case he would be 100% correct.
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