The Harper government is preparing to spend close to $1-billion on security for world leaders gathering in Ontario this summer – meetings in which one of the top items on the agenda is reining in state profligacy.

That price tag is more than 20 times the total reported cost for the April, 2009, G20 summit in Britain, with the government estimating a cost of $30-million, and seems much higher than security costs at previous summits – the Gleneagles G8 summit in Scotland, 2005, was reported to have spent $110-million on security, while the estimate for the 2008 G8 gathering in Japan was $381-million.

I find all this security thing a mystery - why does this not come out of the budget of the RCMP etc - after all they are getting their wages paid - where does the extra money go?

Even if I am stupid and this simple minded idea is wrong - how can it be possible to spend this kind of money?