The worst government waste of 2026 - and we gave out trophies for it | Teddy Waste Awards!
Plaques for dead raccoon. Fake soccer balls. An agency that gets tax questions right 17% of the time.
Welcome to the 2026 Teddy Waste Awards — where the Canadian Taxpayers Federation hands out golden pig trophies to the worst government waste offenders of the year.
🐷 MUNICIPAL AWARD — City of Toronto
Heritage Toronto spent nearly $2,000 on a plaque to memorialize a raccoon that died in 2015.
🐷 PROVINCIAL AWARD — B.C. Premier David Eby
The B.C. government spent $354,000 on three “wood-leather soccer balls” for display purposes. You can’t kick them. They’re not round. But you paid for them.
🐷 FEDERAL AWARD — Canada Revenue Agency
The Auditor General found the CRA answered personal income tax questions correctly just 17% of the time. For business taxes: 54%. “Completeness of response:” 31%. You might as well ask a Magic 8 Ball for tax advice.
🐷 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
The SSHRC costs taxpayers $1 billion a year and funds studies on the life cycle of a grocery cart, casual sex in Jasper, erotic video games and disgraced rodeo princesses. The government calls this research into “issues that matter most to Canadians.”
The Teddy Waste Award is named after Ted Weatherill, a federal bureaucrat fired in 1999 for submitting dubious expense claims — including a $700 lunch for two.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCXUELQhOO0
Plaques for dead raccoon. Fake soccer balls. An agency that gets tax questions right 17% of the time.
Welcome to the 2026 Teddy Waste Awards — where the Canadian Taxpayers Federation hands out golden pig trophies to the worst government waste offenders of the year.
🐷 MUNICIPAL AWARD — City of Toronto
Heritage Toronto spent nearly $2,000 on a plaque to memorialize a raccoon that died in 2015.
🐷 PROVINCIAL AWARD — B.C. Premier David Eby
The B.C. government spent $354,000 on three “wood-leather soccer balls” for display purposes. You can’t kick them. They’re not round. But you paid for them.
🐷 FEDERAL AWARD — Canada Revenue Agency
The Auditor General found the CRA answered personal income tax questions correctly just 17% of the time. For business taxes: 54%. “Completeness of response:” 31%. You might as well ask a Magic 8 Ball for tax advice.
🐷 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
The SSHRC costs taxpayers $1 billion a year and funds studies on the life cycle of a grocery cart, casual sex in Jasper, erotic video games and disgraced rodeo princesses. The government calls this research into “issues that matter most to Canadians.”
The Teddy Waste Award is named after Ted Weatherill, a federal bureaucrat fired in 1999 for submitting dubious expense claims — including a $700 lunch for two.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCXUELQhOO0
The worst government waste of 2026 - and we gave out trophies for it | Teddy Waste Awards!
Plaques for dead raccoon. Fake soccer balls. An agency that gets tax questions right 17% of the time.
Welcome to the 2026 Teddy Waste Awards — where the Canadian Taxpayers Federation hands out golden pig trophies to the worst government waste offenders of the year.
🐷 MUNICIPAL AWARD — City of Toronto
Heritage Toronto spent nearly $2,000 on a plaque to memorialize a raccoon that died in 2015.
🐷 PROVINCIAL AWARD — B.C. Premier David Eby
The B.C. government spent $354,000 on three “wood-leather soccer balls” for display purposes. You can’t kick them. They’re not round. But you paid for them.
🐷 FEDERAL AWARD — Canada Revenue Agency
The Auditor General found the CRA answered personal income tax questions correctly just 17% of the time. For business taxes: 54%. “Completeness of response:” 31%. You might as well ask a Magic 8 Ball for tax advice.
🐷 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
The SSHRC costs taxpayers $1 billion a year and funds studies on the life cycle of a grocery cart, casual sex in Jasper, erotic video games and disgraced rodeo princesses. The government calls this research into “issues that matter most to Canadians.”
The Teddy Waste Award is named after Ted Weatherill, a federal bureaucrat fired in 1999 for submitting dubious expense claims — including a $700 lunch for two.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCXUELQhOO0
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