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🐷🏆2019 Teddy Waste Awards🐷🏆
Lifetime Achievement Award:
Former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson
Nominated for: Soaking taxpayers even in retirement
Cost: At least $1.1 million
VANCOUVER, B.C.: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation today held its 21st annual Teddy Waste Awards ceremony, celebrating the best of the worst in government waste from the past year, with British Columbia making a stinkingly strong showing.
“British Columbia won in the provincial category for legislative officials who spent taxpayers’ money on everything from fancy watches to baseball games and we also won the municipal award for Vancouver’s bizarre email-a-tree program,” said Kris Sims, the CTF’s B.C. Director. “When bureaucrats and politicians choose to waste our money like this, it’s important to recognize them for their efforts – and B.C. is topping the charts, winning the Teddy Waste Award in two categories this year.”
CTF Federal Director Aaron Wudrick served as host, along with the CTF’s pink pig mascot Porky the Waste Hater, at the awards ceremony on Parliament Hill, while Sims handed out the provincial hardware in Metro Vancouver.
Federally, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s flamboyant trip to India took first place and former governor general Adrienne Clarkson won an unprecedented second lifetime achievement award.
“It was bad enough to watch the prime minister’s costume changes and dance moves during his trip to India, but seeing the bill was even worse and we’re giving him Teddy Waste Award for the debacle,” said Wudrick. “In an unprecedented example of enduring waste, former governor general Adrienne Clarkson won a second lifetime achievement award for billing taxpayers for $1.1 million in expenses after leaving office.”
The Teddy, a golden pig-shaped award given annually by the CTF to government’s worst waste offenders, is named for Ted Weatherill, a former federal appointee who was fired in 1999 for submitting a panoply of dubious expense claims, including a $700 lunch for two.
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