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Taxpayers Federation hands out Teddy Waste Awards for worst government spending (Western Standard)


The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has announced the winners of its annual Teddy Waste Awards, calling out what it says are the worst examples of government waste in Canada, including spending on booze, botched tourism ads and a novelty river hotline.

Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was awarded the lifetime achievement Teddy for nearly a decade of what the CTF describes as excessive federal waste, including billing taxpayers $6,000 per night for a hotel suite in England, spending six figures on airplane food after pledging to cut costs, and adding 99,000 federal bureaucrats while nearly doubling the national debt.

"Trudeau never met a problem he didn’t try to fix by wasting more tax dollars." said the CTF ...

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