In the socialist paradise of North Korea or China, the government would cover the cost by selling the perpetrators’ body parts. In Canada, filled as it is with capitalist greed, we all get to pay:
Toronto Mayor David Miller said Monday that he’s sending the bill for damages and compensation from the G20 summit to the federal government.
Police vehicles were burned, bank windows smashed and storefronts vandalized Saturday as a small band of militant protesters ran riot in the downtown core.
As the city that resembled a police state on the weekend resumed business as usual Monday, Mayor David Miller called on Ottawa to assume financial responsibility for the mess.
“This is a federal responsibility. It’s their conference,” Miller said at a news conference.
The Feds should pay for it. It’ll either be all the taxpayers, or only City of Toronto taxpayers. TO didn’t ask for the G20, it was foisted on them, and then the Feds ignored the Mayor’s suggestion that it be held in the (self contained and easily secured) Exhibition Place.