Penny Wise or ?

Consulates in Japan, Italy, and Russia closed to save 3.4 million and a 146 million annual contract to run a software program Canadians and civil servants don't like. I may be perennially suspicious but why close consulates? and why AGAIN think that we are so stupid that we would believe it's a cost-cutting measure? Mr. H. only cuts what he doesn't like. So what's the real reason?