🇨🇦 Canada · 2010 · 🎉 Parties & trips
A shallow pool with deck chairs and a canoe, inside a Toronto convention centre. To show reporters Muskoka.
💸 Guess, then reveal the price
C$57,000 the water feature
Cottage country, now with no mosquitoes and a convention-centre carpet.
What actually happened
The 2010 summit media pavilion included a reflecting pool nicknamed the “fake lake.” The foreign affairs minister told the House of Commons the water feature itself cost about $57,000, not the $1.9 million some reports suggested.
Source: Maclean’s ↗ · Amount in original currency, not adjusted for inflation. An unusual cost is not automatically waste; see how we check the facts.