Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government failed to reveal the true cost of its search for the Franklin Expedition to Parliament, reporting only a fraction of what the government actually spent, iPolitics has learned.
The search for Franklin’s ill-fated Arctic expedition has cost Canadian taxpayers more than $2.8 million dollars — more than twice the $1.1 million sum the government reported earlier this year.
And that sum does not include the $7.2 million cost of an ad campaign the government launched at the end of June to promote the role of the Franklin Expedition in Canada’s history.
Liberal MP Joyce Murray accused the Harper government of trying to conceal the amount it spent on its search for the Franklin expedition at a time when it was cutting money for defence and veterans’ services.
“I think they wanted to hide the fact that they are spending money in a way to serve their own political, partisan benefit while cutting the funds that have been dedicated to important services that are needed by Canadians,” said Murray, whose order paper question sparked the government’s original answer.
READ MORE: http://ipolitics.ca/2015/08/14/franklin-expedition-search-cost-twice-as-much-as-harper-government-claimed/
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