Teddy Awards awarded
Posted Mar 6, 2013 10:10 am.
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The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has handed out its Teddy awards for the best examples of government waste over the last year.
The federation says Standing Buffalo First Nation Chief Roger Redman, whose reserve is home to 443 people, took home more after-tax income last year than Stephen Harper.
As well, it says each of his councillors earns more than the premier of Saskatchewan.
The federation says when band members gathered to impeach him, Redman padlocked the band office and confiscated the band’s chequebook.
The prime minister earned more than $317,000 in 2011, before taxes.
The provincial Teddy Winner is former Alberta Tourism Minister Christine Cusanelli. The province had $113,000 worth of empty hotel rooms in London for the Olympics so she decided to take her mother and daughter with her to the Games. She did eventually pay back the costs.
The Teddy awards are named for Ted Weatherill, a former Canada Labour Relations Board chairman who was fired in 1999 after submitting a litany of questionable expenses, including a $700 lunch for two.
