Thursday, she resigned over allegations she created a toxic work environment at Rideau Hall, an unprecedented move for a monarch s representative in Canada.
Trudeau faced questions Friday about his judgment and his government s failure to check with Payette s former employers at the Montreal Science Centre and the Canadian Olympic Committee, where she faced similar allegations of harassing and bullying subordinates. We will continue to look at the best way to select people for viceregal appointments, Trudeau told a news conference Friday outside his residence at Rideau Cottage. It s an important role for Canadians and we will look at how we can improve it.
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“The Trudeau government broke our National Debt Clock”
Aaron Wudrick, national director CTF
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is a non-profit taxpayer advocacy group that keeps its eye on government spending at all levels. Founded in 1990 and funded by free-will donations, the organization annually hands out pig-shaped ‘awards’ for the most egregious cases of wasting of taxpayer’s money. Called the ‘Teddy Awards’, the trophies are named after a federal appointee who was eventually fired after submitting a substantial number of dubious expense claims including a $700 claim for a lunch for two.
Not long after its formation, the CTF had the ‘national debt clock’ built to highlight the rapidly increasing level of federal government deficit spending. When a subsequent government balanced the budget in 1998 the clock was put in storage, only to be brought out again in 2009 when the following government went back into deficit spending.
Taxpayers shouldn t be paying billions to subsidize cruise ship repairs
January 22, 2021
Itâs hard to believe spending $3 billion in taxpayer money to subsidize repairs for cruise ships and other private shipping made it on to Ottawaâs to-do list during the pandemic.
Yet the Ottawa Citizenâs David Pugliese broke the story that Canadian taxpayers will soon be forced to put billions into bankrolling a government shipyard that will overwhelmingly benefit a few private businesses.
The federal governmentâs plan to convert the Esquimalt Graving Dock (EGD) repair yard on Vancouver Island into a full-service ship construction facility.
The EGD is the last major government-owned shipyard in Canada, with other formerly government-owned facilities having mercifully been sold. The EGD has always been a repair shop rather than a full-service facility.
January 22, 2021
OTTAWA, ON: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation today called on the Trudeau government to immediately stop former governors general from billing taxpayers for expenses indefinitely after they have left office.
âWith the resignation of Julie Payette, now is the time for this government to ensure that taxpayers are not on the hook for the expense accounts of former governors general,â said CTF Federal Director Aaron Wudrick.
The existing expense program has been in place since 1979. It allows former governors general to bill taxpayers for everything from staff salaries to travel costs even after leaving office. Former governor general Adrienne Clarkson has billed taxpayers for more than $1.1 million since leaving office in 2005.
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