Does the Government of Canada need a U.S. style DOGE financial audit?
Franco Terrazzano, federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, would say yes. Terrazzano released a series of bombshell tweets revealing extreme waste in Ottawa.
"Global Affairs Canada (is doling) out $223 million to the “private sector” in South America for climate change mitigation and gender-responsive, sustainable economic development," he wrote on X.
"Global Affairs Canada (also) doles out $350 million in corporate welfare to the private sector in Asia to develop low carbon and climate-resilient initiatives and advance gender equality in the region."
Other wasteful spending in Ottawa includes Global Affairs Canada spending a significant sum on a sex toy show in Germany, and funding discussions on seniors' sex lives abroad.
Parks Canada spent four years and $10,000 trying to capture a single bullfrog, and $800,000 to hunt 84 deer on a B.C. island, costing nearly $10,000 per deer due to the use of helicopters and extensive ammunition.
Canada Post lost $1.2 billion over two years, and VIA Rail has used $1.8 billion in taxpayer money over five years just to cover operating losses.