Expensive Summit?

Former prime ministers Ehud Barak(Israel), Julia Gillard (Australia) andGeorge Papandreou (Greece) andother prominent international businesstypes addressed a crowd ofabout 1,000 at the SheratonVancouver Guildford Hotel duringthe Surrey Regional EconomicSummit on Thursday. While this PRexercise is quite an expensive affair,Surrey mayor Dianne Watts says itwon’t cost Surrey taxpayers a dime.Didn’t she say the new Surrey Cityhall was also not very expensiveuntil it was pointed out that aftereverything is counted, it will end upcosting Surrey $150 million. Otherspeakers included Texas oilman andphilanthropist T. Boone Pickens andan economic panel featuring KenPeacock, Michael Goldberg, AndrewRamlo, and Shauna Sylvester