Siobhan Coady at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On November 18th, 2010. See this statement in context.

November 18th, 2010 / 9:10 a.m.

Liberal

Siobhan Coady Liberal St. John's South—Mount Pearl, NL

I just want to ask DFAIT a couple of questions, if I may.

There is another thing that I find a little challenging. DFAIT bought a pretty fancy set of china for 24 people, dining room place settings. The place settings were $11,000 and glass charges were an additional $6,000. There were frosted glasses. It was a pretty fancy set of cutlery, and I'm sure there had to be silverware involved in this. What became of this set of china? Why did we actually need to buy a new set of china for 24? Wasn't this held at a Deerhurst resort? Wouldn't they have quality tableware?

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