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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s stay in Canada during Megxit easily cost taxpayers more than $40,000 in security costs, according to documents obtained by a watchdog group. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) spent at least $56,384 Canadian — about $41,500 US — protecting the former royals from Nov. 18 until Jan. 19, the Canadian …
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s stay in Canada during Megxit easily cost taxpayers more than $40,000 in security costs, according to documents obtained by a watchdog group.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) spent at least $56,384 Canadian — about $41,500 US — protecting the former royals from Nov. 18 until Jan. 19, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation said.
That tally, however, is likely to be far higher — and does not even cover salaries paid to Mounties who helped protect them, the federation stressed of documents obtained from access to information requests.
The current tally only shows costs such as overtime, travel, meals, incidentals and accommodations.
“For security reasons and to protect our operations, we are not releasing salary costs,” the RCMP told the federation in a statement.
The report also only highlights part of the time the couple lived in their luxury bolthole on Vancouver Island during their controversial Megxit from royal duties. While the records end in mid-January, the duke and duchess only left for their new life in Los Angeles in late March.
RCMP officials expressed concern that the royal issue was “costing us huge,” the federation said — while also suggesting that Harry and Meghan only left the Great White North after financial help was cut off.
The RCMP said protection ended on March 14. They refused to provide a total summary of costs for the whole visit, the federation said.
“More than $50,000 is nothing to sneeze at, especially when you consider the fact that this is taxpayers’ money covering bills for one of the most famous and wealthy couples in the world,” said Aaron Wudrick, director of the taxpayers’ group.
“Had the government not cut them off and had Meghan and Harry stayed in Canada, the bill could have easily turned into millions.”
More than 80,000 Canadians had signed the group’s petition saying they did not think the pair’s costs should be paid with taxpayers’ money.
“We’re proud to have given voice to the vast majority of Canadians who felt subsidizing the Sussexes’ lifestyle choices was an outrageous use of tax dollars,” said Wudrick.
