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Hosting world summits to cost Canada $ 1.2 billion

Rediff.com21 Jun 2010

The world leaders, who will gather in Toronto on June 25, including Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, will have total 'sit-down' time of 24 hours in three days.The Toronto Star has done the math: The two summits of world leaders would cost $50-million an hour which works out to $ 833,000 a minute.

'PM's Canada visit will last only a few hours'

Rediff.com22 Jun 2010

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's official visit to Canada will last barely half a day. The G20 summit will end by 2.00 pm on June 27, after which Singh's State visit to Canada will commence.