Harper’s Milan consulate cost cut reversed by Trudeau at cost of $5.5M

Global Affairs, in response to order paper questions, said that despite reports suggesting the project was budgeted at over $18 million, the final approved budget was less than half that amount and the final cost came in at $5,461,477, roughly $2 million less than expected. Most of it, some $3.3 million, was paid to an Italian firm completing the “modified design-build” that included “energy and water conservation measures.”