Althea Raj

Did it buy it?

Or is somebody else holding the costs for it?

What is the cost to the taxpayer of reneging on this contract?

Was the whole point to give a contract to the holder of this plane to use as a charter?

I don't know.

Follow the money.

I'm not a provincial reporter, but this thing doesn't make sense to me.

And I have a lot of questions because it feels like at multiple points, advisors should have said, hold on a second.

One, do we even really need this?

What is the benefit?

How much is it going to cost?

Are you willing to have all these hits to your personal?

He must have known this was coming.

And it seems like this is a thing that has like talk radio and everybody else talking about more than any other issue, like not since the Greenbelt.

And people understand a plane like they understand a $16 glass of orange juice, which the whole controversy really was about how she switched hotels so that she can smoke in her hotel room.

And it cost taxpayers a hell of a lot more money to have a more expensive hotel room and a driver ferrying her from that hotel to the meeting rooms.

But instead, people galvanized around the $16 glass of orange juice.

Now they're galvanizing around the plane.

I mean, the Premier has changed his mind.

Like, I think back to COVID, for example, there was a bit of whiplash about some of the public guidance about what you were and weren't allowed to do based on public feedback.