Siobhan Coady at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

So we have $1.3 billion spent on G-8/G-20 summits. We have thousands and thousands of dollars spent on snacks, for example, at a quite fancy local hotel. We know there were glow sticks, we know there were fake lakes, yet there's no compensation for business owners in the downtown core of Toronto, who either suffered from a two- to three-week decrease in sales or physical damage to their infrastructure and their businesses.