The Prime Minister jetted down to North Captiva Island, Florida on a Challenger jet operated by 412 Squadron out of Ottawa, an RCAF squadron specifically for VIPs. And then, on Tuesday, he flew back again from Ottawa to Page Field in Florida.
00:00:00.000On the weekend, Prime Minister jetted down to North Captiva Island in Florida on a Challenger
00:00:12.960jet operated by 412 Squadron out of Ottawa, an RCAF squadron, specifically for VIPs.
00:00:19.640So in other words, you and I paid for that flight.
00:00:22.940And then he was down there, somehow they got assistance from US Customs and Border Patrol
00:00:29.960in order to use their boat in order to get the Prime Minister and his entourage to the two houses he rented on the island
00:00:37.520and then back to the airport at Page Field again in order to fly back for whatever reason for one day.
00:00:46.820And then on Tuesday, he flew back again from Ottawa back to Page Field in Florida.
00:00:53.080The cost of which, that plane alone, never mind the salaries of flight attendants, pilots, ground crew who have to operate those flights,
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00:01:05.740the actual cost of running the plane has been estimated at somewhere north of $11,000 an hour.
00:01:11.880And that's money, that's taxpayer money, that's money that's our jet-setting Prime Minister is just burning away.
00:01:22.840And despite all of that, he says that you and I need to pay a carbon tax,
00:01:29.020somehow offset the amount of fuel we're using in taking our kids to soccer practice or hockey practice.
00:01:35.000It really is tone-deaf for him to be doing that.
00:01:39.580You fly down for a weekend, you fly back for one day, presumably for meetings,
00:01:43.660and I'm only assuming, given what happened today, that the meeting was with members of the Justice Committee,
00:01:50.320Liberal members of the Justice Committee, who themselves flew all the way to Ottawa to hold a meeting today,
00:01:56.900only to adjourn it after the Conservative members wanted to get the former Attorney General
00:02:02.120to appear for a second time before the committee, and they just shut that down and then shut the committee down.