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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
— Slicing more than $150 million from the initial security budget of $610 million, which bid leaders say came after they applied scrutiny to the numbers the RCMP and other agencies compiled. History makes it abundantly hard to believe Calgary’s Olympics can reverse the trajectory of nearly every Olympics and major-events security costs; Vancouver Games’ costs ballooned from $175 million to $900 million. Securing Sochi cost more than $2 billion. And if with a few hard questions the bid group seriously managed to lop off one-quarter of the police and screening costs, every politician in Canada should take a long hard look at what police chiefs and RCMP superintendents have been asking for all this time.
https://www.macleans.ca/olympics/cal...-bid-lives-on/ |
Lol. There is a published source indicating exactly what I said happened... They took the numbers supplied (which were likely already optimistic) and cut them down to fit the bid