Yes, I think teresa has it right - I read it as Him paying $5000.00 total, so that's 1000 per professional, or $200.00/hour. Which is pretty cheap for specialists in a fully equipped setting. Which might explain how the news got out, come to think of it...

I just really wish WestJet would get themselves a frequent flyer plan and get a corporate culture that's a little more professional and a little less mandated cutseyness. Subjecting the passengers to attendants singing showtunes while landing is many things, but an incentive to return it is not.

Um, there has been a lot of coverage of this locally, far more that appears above or in links, and what's clear is that 1)the news accounts differ on details, and 2) witnesses' accounts directly contradict the police. For example, the police have claimed that they resorted to tasers and not pepper spray because the airport was too crowded - when in fact the event took place around 1 AM and witnesses describe the scene as not crowded at all.

And if I think about it, the image of a man going on an incredible hulk style rampage is incompatible with him being in the middle of a crowd. Video will tell.

But it is not, in fact, clearly established that the man actually was throwing chairs or breaking computers--it is not clear who is making that claim or what is meant by that. Is it knocking over a single chair? Or is it throwing a bench through a window?

The facts are not in, here. Other than that a man is dead, and in all likelihood the BC police will be investigating themselves after a man has died under suspicious circumstances in their custody.

Yet again.