Speculation Remains About Canada's 2010 Olympics Security Budget

Speculation remains about Canada's security budget for the 2010 Olympic Games.

Go3 109 Ab In an era in which Olympics security costs can run into the billions, it is worth pondering whether the money spent outweighs the risk. No, really. Athens 2004 organizers and Greek authorities spent a well-publicized $1.5 billion USD - or, $142,857 per athlete or $283 per ticket sold - for a security plan designed in equal parts to reassure a nervous post-9/11 public and to scare off terrorists ("Money has this incalculable deterrent value," Bruce Hoffman, of the RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy, told The Wall Street Journal at the time). Beijing 2008 organizers and the Chinese government, on the other hand, spent about $300 million - 20 percent of the Athens security budget. Both events went off without a hitch - perhaps a testament to the money spent, perhaps not.

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