Federal Teddy Winner:
G8/G20 costs: $1.24 billion“And the Federal Teddy goes to...organizers of the G8/G20 summits for managing to spend a billion dollars on a political chin-wag, ironically organized to discuss how to trim government over-spending,” said Gaudet.
Provincial Teddy Winner:
Ontario tax collectors paid severance for keeping jobs: $56-million (max estimate)“And the Provincial Teddy goes to...Ontario tax collectors who were paid a maximum $45,000 each in severance for changing their business cards from ‘Ontario PST collector’ to ‘Federal HST’ collector.”
Municipal Teddy Winner:
Edmonton haiku contest: $5,000“And the Municipal Teddy goes to…the City of Edmonton for spending $5,000 on a contest to get people to write poems or haikus about riding the bus, despite already paying an official city poet laureate another $5,000 a year to write poetry for the city,” said Gaudet.
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