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Title: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: DKG on July 28, 2025, 10:14:44 AM
Thanks to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation for shining a light on our elected leaders who treat taxpayers disrespectfully.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdQUosw96IA
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politician who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Oliver the Second on July 28, 2025, 10:51:04 AM
Trudeau for teh win!   :crampe:
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politician who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: formosan on July 28, 2025, 10:54:16 AM
Quote from: Oliver the Second on July 28, 2025, 10:51:04 AMTrudeau for teh win!   :crampe:
Maybe next year it will be PM Mark Carney.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politician who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Mark Carney on July 28, 2025, 11:29:02 AM
Quote from: formosan on July 28, 2025, 10:54:16 AMMaybe next year it will be PM Mark Carney.
My expenses will be huge but still peanuts compared to the billions in contracts I will award to companies I have a financial stake in. :crampe:
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: JOE on July 28, 2025, 12:20:40 PM
Quote from: Mark Carney on July 28, 2025, 11:29:02 AMMy expenses will be huge but still peanuts compared to the billions in contracts I will award to companies I have a financial stake in. :crampe:

I think you're doing a good job & trying to do what's best for the people of Canada Prime Minister avatar_Mark Carney Carney.

Keep up the Good work.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Brent on July 28, 2025, 12:21:19 PM
Quote from: DKG on July 28, 2025, 10:14:44 AMThanks to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation for shining a light on our elected leaders who treat taxpayers disrespectfully.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdQUosw96IA
I wish we could take all the wasteful spending Canadian politicians spend on themselves and give to their bureaucrat friends and put it into health care transfers before it's too late.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: JOE on July 28, 2025, 12:23:00 PM
Quote from: Brent on July 28, 2025, 12:21:19 PMI wish we could take all the wasteful spending Canadian politicians spend on themselves and give to their bureaucrat friends and put it into health care transfers before it's too late.

I wish for our Prime Minister's success avatar_Brent Brent.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Thiel on July 28, 2025, 01:06:17 PM
Quote from: JOE on July 28, 2025, 12:20:40 PMI think you're doing a good job & trying to do what's best for the people of Canada Prime Minister avatar_Mark Carney Carney.

Keep up the Good work.
Jo Jo honeybunch, remember I explained to you after we had sex last night that Mr Carney hasn't done anything for Canada yet. He hasn't even tried to negotiate a trade deal to avoid tariffs like the EU and Japan have.

Now contrast that with Mr Trump who has negotiated close to a trillion dollar energy trade deal with Europe.

Mr Carney and Mr Trump are doing what's best for Americans.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Thiel on July 28, 2025, 01:08:34 PM
Quote from: JOE on July 28, 2025, 12:23:00 PMI wish for our Prime Minister's success avatar_Brent Brent.
Pussycat, they don't want to respond your playful trolling. I will though.

Mr Carney will measure his success as prime minister by how well his investments in America do.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on July 28, 2025, 02:37:44 PM
Quote from: Thiel on July 28, 2025, 01:08:34 PMPussycat, they don't want to respond your playful trolling. I will though.

Mr Carney will measure his success as prime minister by how well his investments in America do.
Your boyfriend sure does cheer on what is good for the US of A.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Shen Li on July 28, 2025, 08:41:08 PM
Quote from: DKG on July 28, 2025, 10:14:44 AMThanks to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation for shining a light on our elected leaders who treat taxpayers disrespectfully.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdQUosw96IA
White Canadians love wasteful politicians.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: . on July 29, 2025, 04:47:57 AM
Quote from: Shen Li on July 28, 2025, 08:41:08 PMWhite Canadians love wasteful politicians.
Speaking as someone with two degrees of seperation from the Truedeaps, I think him to be a cunt. Pretty sure that sentiment is reflected among his immediate circle too. Particularly after he fucked them over.

Bury him under a jail.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: DKG on July 29, 2025, 09:49:33 AM
QuoteSpeaking as someone with two degrees of seperation from the Truedeaps, I think him to be a cunt. Pretty sure that sentiment is reflected among his immediate circle too. Particularly after he fucked them over.

Bury him under a jail.
The Liberal caucus and Canadian voters changed nothing when Carney was selected to replace Trudeau.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: . on July 29, 2025, 11:22:00 PM
Quote from: DKG on July 29, 2025, 09:49:33 AMThe Liberal caucus and Canadian voters changed nothing when Carney was selected to replace Trudeau.
You don't think so, huh? I reckon they stomped on the gas of an economy that was already in the process on launching itself off a cliff.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: DKG on July 30, 2025, 10:03:55 AM
Quote from: . on July 29, 2025, 11:22:00 PMYou don't think so, huh? I reckon they stomped on the gas of an economy that was already in the process on launching itself off a cliff.
Precisely. More of the same.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Thiel on July 30, 2025, 02:02:27 PM
Quote from: DKG on July 29, 2025, 09:49:33 AMThe Liberal caucus and Canadian voters changed nothing when Carney was selected to replace Trudeau.
It looks that way.

Despite his rhetoric about removing inter-provincial trade barriers and making Canada an energy superpower with the strongest economy of G7 nations, he has not removed any of the Trudeau laws that would allow that to happen. In fact, he has added more barriers to making Canada wealthy again.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: DKG on August 03, 2025, 09:56:26 AM
Honourable mention goes to:

-Global Affairs Canada: Spending $51,000 a month on booze
-National Defence: Buying sleeping bags that aren't warm enough for winter
-Parks Canada: Wasting $10,000 and four years catching one frog
-Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council: Funding crazy reports
-Statistics Canada: Spending almost $1 million on a podcast nobody listens to
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Prof Emeritus at Fawk U on August 03, 2025, 03:16:17 PM
Quote from: DKG on August 03, 2025, 09:56:26 AMHonourable mention goes to:

-Global Affairs Canada: Spending $51,000 a month on booze
-National Defence: Buying sleeping bags that aren't warm enough for winter
-Parks Canada: Wasting $10,000 and four years catching one frog
-Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council: Funding crazy reports
-Statistics Canada: Spending almost $1 million on a podcast nobody listens to


Hey!  I listen to that podcast religiously...



...so I can easily fall asleep.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on August 03, 2025, 03:32:37 PM
Our Liberal government is good at one thing and that is wasting our money.
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: DKG on August 04, 2025, 11:14:21 AM
Quote from: Herman on August 03, 2025, 03:32:37 PMOur Liberal government is good at one thing and that is wasting our money.
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We need a DOGE.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Brent on August 04, 2025, 12:42:30 PM
Quote from: Herman on August 03, 2025, 03:32:37 PMOur Liberal government is good at one thing and that is wasting our money.
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This is why working class people do not want to give Ottawa one more dime.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on August 04, 2025, 03:14:38 PM
Quote from: Brent on August 04, 2025, 12:42:30 PMThis is why working class people do not want to give Ottawa one more dime.
This is why we want the hell out of Canada. One of the many reasons.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on August 04, 2025, 03:27:21 PM
I like this Coloured gal.
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on August 05, 2025, 02:21:06 PM
How can they be spending this much money on the prison system while refusing to keep criminals in prison?
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Shen Li on August 05, 2025, 08:36:52 PM
Quote from: Herman on August 05, 2025, 02:21:06 PMHow can they be spending this much money on the prison system while refusing to keep criminals in prison?
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Canada's insane drug policies plus catch and release of criminals are 2 of the 3 reasons Chinese-Canadians vote Tory.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: . on August 06, 2025, 07:15:10 AM
Quote from: Herman on August 05, 2025, 02:21:06 PMHow can they be spending this much money on the prison system while refusing to keep criminals in prison?
Best guess? It's a ready made resource for locking up dissenters that get too rambunctious for the political elite's liking.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on August 06, 2025, 03:50:33 PM
Quote from: . on August 06, 2025, 07:15:10 AMBest guess? It's a ready made resource for locking up dissenters that get too rambunctious for the political elite's liking.
Like Tamara Lich who is looking at seven years for a peaceful protest against the divine Liberal Party.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on August 06, 2025, 04:00:30 PM
Another Liberal success story. Successfully wasting our money.
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: . on August 07, 2025, 09:12:52 AM
Quote from: Herman on August 06, 2025, 03:50:33 PMLike Tamara Lich who is looking at seven years for a peaceful protest against the divine Liberal Party.
Mmhmm. No doubt the next trucker protest and its like figures in there as well.

"When you let the wolves guard the hen house, there's bound to be a few chicken dinners."
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Thiel on August 07, 2025, 01:39:05 PM
Quote from: Herman on August 05, 2025, 02:21:06 PMHow can they be spending this much money on the prison system while refusing to keep criminals in prison?
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That is not surprising considering how many violent offenders in Canada receive a slap on the wrists.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on August 07, 2025, 05:30:28 PM
North Bay, Ontario's maypor deserves honourable mention.
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: DKG on August 07, 2025, 06:42:18 PM
According to its latest annual report, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation(CTF) not only did the governor general's office spend $36 million in 2023-24, the position receives a $378,000 salary, a taxpayer-funded clothing allowance, a lifetime pension of about $150,000 annually and a $200,000 annual expense account after leaving office.

The Leger poll found that 49% want to reduce the Governor General's budget, 19% would keep it the same, 13% want to increase it and 19% are unsure.

Among those with an opinion, nearly 60% of Canadians favour a reduction.

Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on August 10, 2025, 02:57:15 PM
More of the same waste we had under Justine. Is this how you want your money spent?
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: . on August 12, 2025, 06:28:04 AM
Quote from: Herman on August 10, 2025, 02:57:15 PMMore of the same waste we had under Justine. Is this how you want your money spent?
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14.4 million buys a lot of baked beans for them to sniff each others farts.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: DKG on August 12, 2025, 09:50:08 AM
Quote from: . on August 12, 2025, 06:28:04 AM14.4 million buys a lot of baked beans for them to sniff each others farts.
That's about the value it brings to Canadian taxpayers.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on August 13, 2025, 06:59:46 PM
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on August 14, 2025, 04:42:14 PM
FinDev Canada, created by former prime minister Justin Trudeau in 2017, says in an internal memo it did no "due diligence" before investing millions into a money-losing cellphone company in Kenya, according to Blacklock's Reporter.

The federal agency, known more formally as the Development Finance Institute, admitted as much in the memo they withheld for six years under the Access to Information act.

Justine created FinDev Canada with a $300-million budget "to support private sector investment in developing countries."

The agency's first investment was buying US$10 million shares in M-Kopa Holdings Ltd. of Nairobi, a door-to-door sales company marketing cellphones and housewares.

Access To Information records, approval for the M-Kopa agreement came only weeks after being contacted by the company's CEO.

Since 2018, FinDev has bought additional M-Kopa shares for a total of $43.4 million.

Over the same period, M-Kopa reported $138.6 million in combined losses but FinDev wouldn't say how much taxpayers have lost.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on August 14, 2025, 04:44:34 PM
Why are we paying to serve wine to ISIS brides?
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on August 15, 2025, 02:38:17 PM
That's a lot of money to waste without making a dent in the problem.\
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: DKG on August 18, 2025, 10:22:58 AM
About 40 per cent of my fellow Canadian Taxpayer Federation(CTF) supporters picked Global Affairs Canada for spending $51,000 per month on booze, $8,800 on a sex toy show in Germany and $12,000 on a show where seniors in other countries talked about their sex lives on stage.

A close second was Statistics Canada (39 per cent). It spent almost $1 million making a podcast, but it wasn't about statistics ... Those bureaucrats made podcasts about climate change, arts and crafts, misinformation and gender identity.

CTF supporters picked BC Rail for the provincial government waste award. BC rail sold its trains and railway decades ago, but it kept its executives around and pays them hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The city of Calgary spent $65,000 so people could have a fake phone call with the Bow River. This is so dumb, I'm not surprised CTF supporters picked Calgary for the municipal government waste award.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on August 20, 2025, 05:55:50 PM
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Brent on August 25, 2025, 12:44:29 PM
This pisses me off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etQd_0zb6ys
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on August 25, 2025, 05:29:36 PM
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on August 25, 2025, 05:58:23 PM
Conman Carney knows how to waste our money.
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Shen Li on August 25, 2025, 09:32:31 PM
Quote from: Herman on August 25, 2025, 05:58:23 PMConman Carney knows how to waste our money.
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That is obscene. And Carney won't rule out Canadian troops in Ukraine. :crazy:
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: DKG on August 26, 2025, 09:27:43 AM
The federal government said it's going to start confiscating firearms from individual Canadians in September.

Ottawa's confiscation program could cost taxpayers like you billions of dollars.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on August 27, 2025, 06:04:53 PM
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: DKG on August 28, 2025, 10:09:44 AM
Quote from: Herman on August 27, 2025, 06:04:53 PM(https://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/539496257_122212700798108219_1603810837058671536_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s640x640_tt6&_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=833d8c&_nc_ohc=cyaiD2GYKb0Q7kNvwFDQPlM&_nc_oc=Adn_mBfaICcRUg6ZdLy-I4R-YYIRzpPP_fza-cgZ9GSaVHXML9iVvRqRpbGg6QKnaSA&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-yyz1-1.xx&_nc_gid=ABBrPJ7Np9asTfmvn687pg&oh=00_AfUJ94y9ba0S-TWx9vryH656h-y1ZmOSILJ3O4OWUf7kqg&oe=68B56C38)
Zelensky does. So do big green projects.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on August 28, 2025, 06:11:35 PM
$1.5 billion and they can't even be bothered to hire Canadian.
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on August 28, 2025, 06:13:22 PM
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on August 29, 2025, 06:44:47 PM
We are paying for Zelenskyy's arms purchase of US arms.
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: DKG on September 04, 2025, 07:09:17 AM
There's an auditor general for the federal government and every single province has one. But there's no auditor general for First Nations communities. So there's nobody to call when grassroots Indigenous activists have questions about what's happening with their community's money.

The auditor general is a key part of keeping politicians accountable. The federal auditor general caught over $4.6 billion in CERB overpayments and raised the alarm about tens of millions of taxpayers' dollars being wasted in Ottawa's green slush fund.

Grassroots Indigenous people don't have an auditor general looking into First Nation community finances.

Many First Nations are doing a fine job, but there are some with serious questions about accountability. Activists need someone to call when they have questions.

Both the Assembly of First Nations and Government of Canada recognize the need for an Indigenous auditor general. They jointly commissioned a report that states: "A First Nations Auditor General would provide many benefits, both today and in the future."

Hans McCarthy is an Indigenous activist fighting for accountability at the Frog Lake First Nation.

He's been trying to find out what's happening to money in a trust fund for oil and gas revenues on his First Nation, but his local politicians are refusing to be accountable and give him answers.

An auditor general is key to helping people like Hans expose what's going on in First Nations communities.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: DKG on September 12, 2025, 07:22:17 AM
The Carney government spends more on interest charges on it's ballooning debt than health care transfers to the provinces.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on September 12, 2025, 09:29:55 PM
The Liberals are funding this hateful rhetoric promoting and celebrating political violence against conservatives. Their funding must be cut to zero, today.
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on September 13, 2025, 07:40:33 PM
Far-left extremists celebrating political violence and murder should not get ONE SINGLE PENNY from Canadian taxpayers.
Why is Steven Guilbeault still funding them?
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Brent on September 15, 2025, 11:57:56 AM
The federal Liberal government put taxpayers on the hook for about $30 billion in subsidies to multinational corporations like Volkswagen, Honda, Stellantis and Northvolt so they can build battery factories.

But you're on the hook for far more than just these subsidies.

Federal corporate welfare costs a family of four about $1,100 annually.

Do you think the government should take $1,100 from working families and give it to corporations? 
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on September 15, 2025, 09:10:16 PM
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on September 18, 2025, 09:24:40 PM
Man we waste a lot of money on mass immigration.
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on September 18, 2025, 09:37:06 PM
Outrageous!! While we are broke.
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: DKG on September 20, 2025, 05:42:21 AM
You know the Governor General bleeds taxpayers. Here is just a few examples of those lavish perks.
 
The latest revelations make the waste impossible to ignore.

The Governor General stuck you with the bill for $1,117 for shoes, $875 for a blazer and $165 for a silk camisole.

As if that weren't enough, she also takes home a $378,000 salary, along with a taxpayer-funded mansion, full staff, lavish travel privileges and even a lifetime expense account. And every cent comes from your pockets.

Canadians struggling with the cost of living shouldn't be forced to bankroll a ceremonial figurehead's luxury wardrobe. It's completely out of touch.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on September 20, 2025, 08:04:07 PM
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Shen Li on September 21, 2025, 10:06:06 PM
Quote from: Herman on September 20, 2025, 08:04:07 PM(https://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/549607658_122215706270108219_2485692876832295919_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s640x640_tt6&_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=833d8c&_nc_ohc=v7bhggvncnMQ7kNvwHQX1_9&_nc_oc=AdnErBDDF_Xq7InhUzU3jCRaYhvQ25_eqcmcIa8XB3ZJkTx3qQIYhEzr5vTxfrSLrKc&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-yyz1-1.xx&_nc_gid=N2_kEMwg0vuHMDS_rLaPTw&oh=00_AfavRG18kM-6dOnyZlqJjrm2Uk61ZT5-c_AdkSvDsmBCCw&oe=68D51E40)
Canada is sooooooo fucking corrupt. Every spending program that the Liberals have rolled out since 2015 from child care to infrastructure to dental care has seen Liberal Party consultants receive the lion's share of taxpayer dollars.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: DKG on September 23, 2025, 07:44:12 AM
Corporate welfare costs the average Canadian family more than $1,100 a year.

These companies should be getting their money from investors and selling products, not by seeking special treatment from the feds.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Shen Li on September 23, 2025, 09:55:19 PM
Canada wants to send troops to Ukraine. SOLUTION: Send the men who came to Canada from Ukraine and they can fight for their country.
Not Canadians' problem nor should they be paying billions for it.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on September 23, 2025, 10:31:44 PM
Ottawa is sending millions into Gaza under the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives. When Parliament asked who is getting the money, Anand hid behind "confidentiality." That's not transparency — that's stonewalling.

Canadians have a right to know where their tax dollars are going. If disclosure risks partners, then at minimum, Parliament must see the full list in-camera, and independent auditors must be allowed to verify the spending. No more blank cheques.
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on September 27, 2025, 08:40:08 PM
Carney is a piece of shit. He hates you even though you voted foerb the prick.
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on September 30, 2025, 06:43:46 PM
A billion bucks to indoctrinate kids.
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: DKG on October 06, 2025, 07:24:36 AM
How many times have you heard the CBC say debt interest charges cost you more than $1 billion every week?

Probably never.

Have you heard any media pundits talk about the government spending $100,000 studying the life of a grocery cart?

Probably not.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on October 07, 2025, 06:31:37 PM
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Shen Li on October 07, 2025, 09:47:05 PM
While you can't afford food, Mark Carney spent $8.2 million tax dollars on gender-just, low-carbon rice in Vietnam.

Can you really afford your Prime Minister?
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: DKG on October 08, 2025, 04:41:08 PM
From 2018 to the mid-point of 2025, Canada Post has lost more than $5 billion, and it ran a shortfall of $407 million in the latest quarter alone. Earlier this year, the federal government loaned Canada Post $1.034 billion — a substantial sum of taxpayer money — to help keep the organization afloat.From 2018 to the mid-point of 2025, Canada Post has lost more than $5 billion, and it ran a shortfall of $407 million in the latest quarter alone. Earlier this year, the federal government loaned Canada Post $1.034 billion — a substantial sum of taxpayer money — to help keep the organization afloat.

As a Crown corporation, Canada Post operates at the behest of the federal government and faces little competition in the postal market. Canadians have nowhere to turn if they're unhappy with service quality, prices or delivery times, particularly when it comes to "snail mail."

Consequently, given its near-monopoly over the postal market, Canada Post has few incentives to keep costs down or become profitable because the government (i.e. taxpayers) is there to bail it out. The lack of competition also means Canada Post lacks incentives to innovate and improve service quality for customers, and the near-monopoly prohibits other potential service providers from entering the letter-delivery market including in remote areas. It's clearly a failing business that's unresponsive to customer needs, lacks creativity and continuously fails to generate profit.

What would happen if Ottawa privatized Canada Post?

Well, peer countries including the Netherlands, Austria and Germany privatized their postal services two decades ago. Prices for consumers (adjusted for inflation) fell by 11% in Austria, 15% in the Netherlands and 17% in Germany.

Denmark has taken it a step further and plans to end letter deliveries altogether. The country has seen a steep 90% drop in letter volumes since 2000 due to the rise of global e-commerce and online shopping. In other words, the Danes are adapting to the times rather than continuing to operate an archaic business model.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on October 14, 2025, 07:46:57 PM
How much money did Conman Carney waste to watch the signing of a peace deal he played zero role in?
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on October 27, 2025, 09:40:34 PM
Canadian have done nothing but sacrifice under Justine and the Conman.
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: DKG on October 30, 2025, 07:32:55 AM
The RCMP division in British Columbia estimates it would cost $12.6 million to conduct its part of the gun confiscation, according to documents we got through access-to-information requests. That's just for B.C.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on October 30, 2025, 09:43:59 PM
How the hell are we supposed to take Conman Carney seriously.
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on November 12, 2025, 08:55:55 PM
The Liberals like wasting our money on shit we don't need and don't want.
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on November 16, 2025, 08:22:04 PM
Conman Carney will win the Golden Pig award for 2024.

Carney's budget is, in fact, significantly worse than the $80 BILLION deficit that's already been reported.

Anyone surprised?
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on November 16, 2025, 09:51:31 PM
Do you want to know what happened to $20 million worth of medical supplies that the Liberals made mysteriously disappear?
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on November 27, 2025, 04:47:52 PM
Why are we spending money to stop election "disinformation" in a country that doesn't even have free elections?

Who is this money going to be defending?
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on December 01, 2025, 06:56:53 PM
The governor general should pay for her own climate change-fortified ice rink.
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on December 04, 2025, 09:44:35 PM
The Liberals take your tax dollars and give it to radical Palestine activist networks, then say they're "fighting anti-Semitism."

Their whole "anti-hate" agenda is a massive fraud.
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on December 05, 2025, 10:21:14 PM
Is this what "spend less, invest more" was supposed to mean?
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on December 08, 2025, 09:50:34 PM
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on December 16, 2025, 09:55:24 PM
$736,000 for Conman Carney to watch the signing of a ceasefire deal he had no part in.
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: DKG on January 18, 2026, 11:06:55 AM
One year after promising to cut travel costs, nearly half of federal departments, agencies and Crown corporations ignored their own targets and actually increased spending.

A total of 53 out of 111 federal departments, agencies and Crown corporations increased spending between 2023 and 2024.

That means that nearly half of departments effectively ignored the government's promise to cut travel spending.

The Copyright Board of Canada hiked its annual travel budget the most, increasing costs 120 per cent between 2023 and 2024.

The Great Lakes Pilotage Authority spent 73 percent more in 2024. Canada Council for the Arts spent 71 per cent more in 2024.

Worse still, few departments were able or willing to quantify actual savings, despite being asked for an explanation. 

Global Affairs Canada, after increasing spending 42 per cent between 2023 and 2024, said the department is "not in a position to share spending reduction measures."

Privy Council Office's spending increased 17 per cent between 2023 and 2024. The PCO said it's "working on reducing its discretionary travel expenditures," but offered the excuse that "due to the nature of Privy Council Office's work, overall travel increased in 2024-25."

The government is spending an average of $1.1 billion per year on travel, hospitality and conferences.

That's the total tax bill for 22,700 Canadian families.

After years of blowing YOUR money on extravagant trips and conferences, there is no reason why every government department can't find big-time savings.

Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: DKG on January 18, 2026, 11:08:09 AM
How much are you paying for Ottawa's bureaucracy?

SPOILER: You're paying way too much.

The federal bureaucracy cost taxpayers like you $71.4 billion last year.

It cost you $39.6 billion at the end of 2015.

That means you're paying 80 per cent more for the federal bureaucracy now than you were just 10 years ago.

Are you getting 80 per cent better services? (Ha!)

Half of Canadian say services have gotten worse since 2016, despite the massive increase in the federal bureaucracy, according to a Leger poll.

It's clear that adding more government bureaucrats doesn't mean better outcomes for you.

So why did the cost of the bureaucracy spiral out of control?

The government added about 100,000 extra bureaucrats since 2016. The growth in the number of bureaucrats doubled the growth in Canada's total employment.

And it's not like there was a bureaucrat shortage in Ottawa before 2016...

The government also jackassed up the pay for bureaucrats.

The government rubberstamped more than $1.5 billion in taxpayer-funded bonuses since 2015.

The average pay for a full-time federal bureaucrat was $148,000 in 2023 when including salary, bonus, pension and all forms of compensation.

For comparison, the annual wage paid to the average Canadian worker in 2023 was less than $70,000. 

Not only are you paying way more for in-house government bureaucrats, you're also paying way more for outside help.

The federal government spent $23.1 billion on consultants, contractors and outsourcing last year. That spending has doubled over the last 10 years.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: DKG on January 19, 2026, 07:57:43 AM
Another week, another multi-million dollar segregation of your tax dollars by the federal government. This time, it's a so-called "Black-led Philanthropic Endowment Fund," which is a permanent $200 million pot of money, courtesy of Budget 2021, reserved exclusively for "Black-led and Black-serving organizations."

The fund is now being cheered on by figures like Liberal minister Marc Miller, who touted such "investments" at a recent press conference.
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But let's strip away the social justice jargon. What this represents is a radical, racist policy that would ignite a firestorm of outrage if the roles were reversed.

Think about it. Seriously, picture it.

What if the headline read "Government Launches $200 Million White-led Philanthropic Endowment Fund"? Or if the administrator was called the "Foundation for White Communities"?

There would be unanimous, deafening condemnation. Every major media outlet, corporate boardroom, and university campus would scream about white supremacy. The government would apologize. The program would be scrapped before the day was out.

The hypocrisy is staggering, yet it is the official policy of the Government of Canada. We have moved from aspiring to be colour-blind to being utterly colour-obsessed. Funding and favour are now dispensed based on skin colour, a concept we once, rightly, rejected as the bedrock of racism.

This isn't about helping people in need. It's about political posturing and buying votes with a racial litmus test. The government claims this fund, stewarded by the Foundation for Black Communities, is about "combating systemic racism."

But you don't fight discrimination with more discrimination. You don't promote unity by dividing people into racial categories and handing out cheques based on them.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on January 25, 2026, 06:30:02 PM
What a waste of time and money.
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Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: DKG on January 31, 2026, 10:18:12 AM
Just because you represent the King, doesn't mean you should live like one at Canadian taxpayers' expense.

But Governor General Mary Simon is living a taxpayer-funded life that would make even Louis XIV blush.

We just caught Simon taking another pay raise bringing her salary to nearly $400,000.

Plus, 98 per cent of Ottawa's government executives billed you for a bonus last year while their departments barely met half their own targets.

Welcome to Ottawa where failure is rewarded with your tax dollars.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Herman on February 02, 2026, 08:54:23 PM
The Governor General's salary jumped by $15,800 this year, pushing her pay to nearly $394,000, all on your dime.

That raise was automatic. No review. No vote. Just a guaranteed pay bump, even though she already earns about five times more than the average Canadian.

While you are struggling with higher grocery bills, housing costs and interest rates, Ottawa's ceremonial figurehead keeps cashing in.

And the salary is only the beginning. On top of nearly $400,000 a year, the Governor General also gets a taxpayer-funded mansion, full staff, luxury travel, a six-figure clothing allowance and a lifetime expense account.

Conman Carney says he wants to cut program spending. If he is serious, the first cut should be obvious: the Governor General's pay and perks at Rideau Hall.
Title: Re: The Golden Pig Awards for Canadian politicians who waste your money in dumb ways
Post by: Shen Li on February 13, 2026, 10:25:30 PM
Mark Carney billed Canadians $300,000 for his airplane food during his first year in office. 


It's hard to believe anyone could rack up higher travel bills than former prime minister Justin Trudeau.

But...

Prime Minister Mark Carney spent more than $21,000 on airplane food on a three-hour roundtrip to Washington, D.C. in May.

That means Carney and his entourage chewed through $7,000 of airplane food every hour.

And the flight wasn't even during a mealtime. They flew to Washington between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m., where Carney and the gang immediately attended a dinner reception. They flew back at 4 p.m. the next day.

A 1.5 hour long flight, about the time it takes to fly from Calgary to Vancouver, is barely enough time to watch a whole movie, let alone chomp through thousands of dollars of food. And they spent $7,000 per hour on airplane food.

Air Canada and WestJet don't bother serving hot food on flights that short because who can't wait a few minutes to get a real meal when they land?

Two weeks after the D.C. trip, Carney went to Italy. The prime minister and his entourage spent nearly $94,000 on airplane food. That's about $5,200 an hour.

For context, that kind of money could cover the grocery bill of about five Canadian families for an entire year.

And you know Carney is wasting too much money on airplane food when he's wasting more money than Trudeau.

Trudeau also went to Italy while he was in office. He spent $43,000 on airplane food in 2024.