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Oct 2, 2026
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Your tax dollars at work
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Your tax dollars at work ANALYSIS 2 OCTOBER 2026 Welcome back.
Canadian Heritage’s deputy minister, Francis Bilodeau, filed $8,459 for “refreshments” for 77 people in Vancouver, sourced from Pizza Pizza, Tiffin, Costco and a place called Catch of the Week.
That works out to roughly $110 a head—a number most of us associate with a steakhouse, not a pizza box.
Meanwhile, Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault fed 1,195 Elections Canada staff in Gatineau for $8,025, with a vendor list that reads like a Saturday errand run: Dollarama, Costco, Walmart, Maxi and a trio of pizza joints.
Breakfast, lunch, refreshments and dinner for 56 people came to $9,447, or about $169 a head.
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Your tax dollars at work
ANALYSIS
2 OCTOBER 2026
Welcome back. The leaves are turning, and so are the pages of the federal proactive-disclosure ledger. As always, everything below comes from the government’s own published records of travel and hospitality—no leaks, no anonymous sources, just the receipts Ottawa files about itself. Pour a coffee. We’ll keep the tab.
Pizza, Dollarama and dinner in Iqaluit
National Public Service Week fell in mid-June, and two departments marked it very differently.…
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