Teddy Awards highlight “piggish” spending

There will be a spotlight on government waste Wednesday, as the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation hosts its annual Teddy Awards.

Pig statuettes are given out to a person or government program which is deemed to have wasted taxpayer money.

There are four categories: Federal, Provincial, Local, and Lifetime Achievement.

For instance, last year’s Federal Teddy was issued to Employment and Development Canada, after they spent $2.5-million in advertising during the Stanley Cup playoffs for a jobs program that didn’t even exist at the time.

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