By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Franco Terrazzano, Federal Director, CTF——Bio and Archives--May 30, 2023
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“This is a big win for taxpayers and it’s long overdue,” said Franco Terrazzano, Federal Director of the CTF. “Paying for a sex toy show in Germany and flying chefs around the world was a huge waste of taxpayers’ money and Global Affairs should have shut this down years ago.”
The federal government quietly issued a statement saying the Mission Cultural Fund “expired on March 31, 2023.”
The Mission Cultural Fund was created in 2016, as a $1.75-million-a-year fund “designed to promote our artists abroad while advancing foreign policy priorities.”
The fund has been consistently overbudget. While the fund was given a budget of $1.75 million annually, its actual average annual spending had been nearly $3.8 million during its first three years.
The Mission Cultural Fund spent taxpayers’ money on events such as:
“The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has been sounding the alarm about this wasteful spending using the Mission Cultural Fund for years and we will be watching them like hawks to make sure the bureaucrats at Global Affairs don’t ferret this money into a new slush fund,” Terrazzano said.
For more information or to schedule interviews, please contact:
Franco Terrazzano
CTF Federal Director
Email: fterrazzano@taxpayer.com
Twitter: @franco_nomics
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