At the height of the student strike, it was revealed that each demonstration cost Montreal police $7.3 million in overtime pay during spring 2012 and currently the City of Montreal is paying $110,000 to outsource defense against Villeneuve's challenge to P-6.
Suzanne Davis, senior vice president of one of the bidders -- JCDecaux North America -- recalls that a decade ago, it took more than a year just to win approval for the installation of three toilets to be used in a four-month demonstration that cost the city nothing.
However, the introduction of new treatments to hospital formularies requires demonstration of cost as well as clinical advantages.
It is thus likely that even with demonstration of cost effectiveness, deployment of the intervention as an information kiosk may face resistance.
The demonstration's costs were higher than the costs of comparable telemedicine programs ($415 to $1,830 per participant per year) that served people with diabetes, used televisits with nurse case managers and in-home visits, and had the "potential to effect costs savings" (3, 4).
By 2006, a demonstration vehicle costing $88m is planned.
They include, the complaint said, requiring that groups of as few as six people apply for protest permits and that protest organizers be prepared to cover the government's demonstration-related costs.
Specifically, the earnings gains of participants along with the likely reductions in outside service use offset most of the demonstration's costs.
"For example, the self-driving Prius that Google featured in its 2012 demonstration video costs around $320,000 to build.
Demonstration of cost-effectiveness is a prerequisite for listing on the Australian PBS [ 29].
