Libs Rip-Off Taxpayers Fed "Teddy" Awards

The Liberal Party of Canada ripped-off the annual "Teddy Waste Awards" today, an annual event hosted by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. The Teddy Awards - which hand out "Golden Sows" at an event to unwilling recipients for wasting taxpayers' money - was held for the 12th year in a row this past March.
Hours ago, Liberal MPs Wayne Easter and Alexandra Mendes held a news conference where on behalf of the Liberals Party of Canada, they awarded several golden pig trophies to the Tories in critique of recent personnel/patronage appointments (choose one depending on your patisan disposition). Anyone who compares photos of the two events would find striking similarities, but for the absence of Pork the Waste Hater.
Most plagiarism in Ottawa is restricted to parties sharing one another's platforms at budget time, but it seldom degenerates into such brash copy-cattery (new word ©).Ironically enough, those golden pig statues were largely paid for by taxpayers, as the Liberal Party - as do all parties - receive massive subsidies from the public purse in addition to significant office budgets for their leader and individual MPs.
If there has ever been a case of the pot calling the kettle black, it is Liberal MPs harping at the Tories for patronage appointments, including those to the Senate. To use yet another relevant cliche, Wayne Easter and Alexandra Mendes should refrain from throwing stones in a glass house and come clean on who exactly paid for those rip-off "Golden Sows."
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