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The taxpayer-owned Canada Infrastructure Bank faulted for failing to finish any projects spent more than $145,000 on marketing and “communications” last year, accounts show. Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna in a letter to the board said the Bank “must be open and transparent.”
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The Senate will spend $150,000 on new desks for employees working from home. Critics questioned why staff could not use kitchen tables or other common household surfaces: “It sounds good in theory.”
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A federal executive defied Prime Ministerial orders by hosting an executive lunch at an upscale restaurant, records show. Francis McGuire, the $226,000-a year president of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, yesterday did not comment: “Limit the number of people you see to what is absolutely essential.”
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Thirteen percent of taxpayers refuse to surrender their bank account information to the government for direct deposit of refunds, data show. The rate of distrust is highest in Atlantic Canada and the Prairies: “I don’t want to share my banking information, and that’s just how it is.”
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