A COVID quarantine facility saw just 10 people stay in the last several months of operation but it still cost taxpayers $6.8 million.
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The Calgary Airport Westin was named a Designated Quarantine Facility under the Quarantine Act on June 22, 2020. Between that date and when the contract expired last October, the federal government paid the hotel $26.8 million to be available for passengers who had no other place to quarantine.Article content
Add on the $35,000 the government paid for repairs, and we get a grand total of $31.3 million or an average of about $21,000 for each of the 1,490 people who stayed there over the past three years.Were this spending at the beginning of the pandemic when we still really didn’t know what was going on — when it was panic mode for every level of government — it would be understandable, but this was happening just a few short months ago.
“So, two questions: How many other hotels did this happened at? And has anybody been fired for this waste?” Rempel Garner asked.
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