The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is recognizing the Canadian government for "unnecessary waste" of over $600 million by poking fun during its annual Teddy Awards with its mascot, Porky the Waster Hater.

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is a citizens' advocacy group. Each year they host the Teddy Awards to draw attention to unnessicary government spending waste.

Government organizations are being "nominated" include Global Affairs spending $11.2 million sending chefs across the world to share "Canadian cuisine," the Yukon spending $139,000 on Instagram influencers to raise $4,500, and $65,000 being spent to erect a fence at Signal Hill, only to have it removed less than 48 hours after its completion.

The award ceremony, complete with a mascot and trophies, takes place each year in Ottawa. CTF hopes that by calling attention to the waste in government that laws will be changed regarding spending.

Winnipeg made the nominee list with last year's events involving city inspectors. Concerned citizens hired private investigators to follow city inspectors, finding that many had been wasting time,

"Little to no work done while on the taxpayers’ dime," the CTF says.

Almost two dozen workers have since left their city inspector positions.

CTF calculated at least $619,266,150 was wasted in the seventeen different governmental projects that they name as being some of the 'worst waste offenders" in Canada.

 

The Federal Teddy Waste Award goes too...

Federal Teddy Winner: Global Affairs Canada’s Mission Cultural Fund Global Affairs Canada spent $11.2 million (out of a budget of $4.5 million) over three years from its Mission Cultural Fund, which included a program to fly chefs around the world to cook at various Canadian diplomatic missions. In addition to the chef flown to New Delhi in 2018 to cook Indian food at a cost of $17,000, other examples include $15,000 to fly a chef to the Dominican Republic to cook at a 2017 Canada Day event, and $4,500 to fly a chef to the Miami consulate to cook “signature Canadian dishes.”

Posted by Canadian Taxpayers Federation on Thursday, March 5, 2020