Canadian Taxpayer Federation Nonsense and Nitpicking

The Canadian Taxpayer Foundation launched their annual ‘Teddy Awards’ yesterday.  This is a program to nitpick and embarrass all levels of public employees.

Where’s the bloated corporate mess of the year award?  We know the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives releases their annual review of corporate salaries, but when we hear about the elaborate waste that goes on in the private sector, in many cases on the public dime?

Like Lockheed-Martin winning an untendered bid for their useless and unnecessary stealth planes bought by the Conservatives for $16 billion (and counting)?

Or the firm(s) that were behind the programming and development of Ontario eHealth, bilking taxpayers for big lunches and broken databases, all at the expense of taxpayers?

Or how about the massive pork-fest that the Cons will likely throw at Quebec for the hockey stadium?  This is good use of public money?

The beneficiaries of these free-for-all spend programs should be up against the wall and not public servants.