https://www.taxpayer.com/news-releases/16th-annual--teddy--government-waste-awards-winners
- Federal – Employment and Social Development Canada – wasted $2.5 million on 2013 Stanley Cup playoffs advertising for the non-existent Canada Jobs Grant
- Provincial – fired Toronto Pan-Am Games boss
- Local – Vancouver’s TransLink builds $4.5 million parking lot for nobody
- Lifetime Achievement – The Senate of Canada, after sober second thought
OTTAWA, ON: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) today held its 16th annual Teddy Waste Awards ceremony, celebrating the best of the worst in government waste. Joining the CTF’s pig mascot Porky the Waste Hater was CTF Federal Director Gregory Thomas in his third year as Master of Ceremonies, and talented event hostess Nakisa. The gala awards event took place Parliament Hill at the Charles Lynch Press Conference Theatre. The Teddy, the 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 turfed in 1999 for submitting an imaginative collection of sketchy expense claims, including a $700 lunch for two. The CTF hosts the Teddy awards each year during red-carpet season to highlight waste and malfeasance at the national, provincial and local level. “Sometimes taxpayers get the last laugh on crooked politicians and free-spending bureaucrats,” said Thomas. “Sometimes a Teddy award can be the beginning of the end for a sad story of government waste.” (more)
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Click here for our detailed backgrounder on all 2014 Teddy award nominees.
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