It's Just Money

Not their money, of course:

The National Research Council confirms it spent more than $60,000 on lounge chairs and bistro furniture for a rooftop patio. The spending was approved by one manager who told staff she did “not want anything that looks like a picnic table.”

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Here comes inflation!:

Cabinet is increasing taxpayer funding for the Canada Infrastructure Bank by 29 percent though the Bank has billions unspent from its initial 2017 financing. It follows a boast by Ehren Cory, the $679,000-a year CEO, that the Bank “reached the stage of being self-sustaining.”