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Ridiculous things governments have wasted money on

What a waste
Australia: Yoga classes for MPs – $8,300 (£6.2k)
Canada: Surveys on Canadian views of the Senate – $11,400 (£8.8k)
Canada: Flying a Canadian chef to India for the Prime Minister – $12,900 (£9.9k)
UK: A hologram for London Brent Council’s HQ – $16,000 (£12k)
US: Synchronised swimming for sea monkeys – $50,000 (£37.5k)
Canada: Signal Hill Fence – $50,000 (£37.4k)
Canada: Giant rubber duck – $92,000 (£69k)
Canada: Putting gold into a creek – $106,000 (£81.6k)
Sweden: A replica of a Swedish town inside Second Life – $118,000 (£75k)
Canada: Red Couch Tour – $119,000 (£89k)
US: A study into the gambling habits of monkeys – $171,000 (£128k)
Japan: A squid statue – $230,000 (£165k)
US: Studying how many times ‘hangry’ people stab a voodoo doll – $331,000 (£249k)
US: Swedish massages for rabbits – $387,000 (£291k)
US: Gas emissions from dairy cows – $700,000 (£623k)
US: Teaching mountain lions to run on a treadmill? – $856,000 (£641k)
Hong Kong: Buildings' feng shui – at least $1.3 million (£968k)
Italy: A lift that goes nowhere – $2.4 million (£1.8m)
US: Jazz-playing robots – $2 million (£1.5m)
US: Hamster fights – $3 million (£2.3m)
UK: Scrapped press briefing room – $3.62 million (£2.6m)
The EU: A blogging donkey – $9.5 million (£7.1m)
Australia: Foxtel subscriptions – $22 million (£16.5m)
Venezuela: A film that never went into production – $22.4 million (£16.8m)
US: Camouflage that stuck out – $28 million (£21.5m)
UK: 50 million face masks that went unused – $329 million (£252m)
Italy: A Mafia motorway – $434 million (£339m)
Japan: A ring road that’s barely used – $2 billion (£1.5bn)
US: Farm subsidies – $2.4 billion (£1.8bn)
UK: Health service IT system – $13.3 billion (£10bn)
Dubai: The World – $14 billion (£10.5bn)
US: Mexico-US border wall – $15 billion (£10.8bn)
US: The F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter – $1.5 trillion (£1.1tn)
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Canada: Flying a Canadian chef to India for the Prime Minister – $12,900 (£9.9k)

In 2018, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shelled out CA$17,000 ($12.9k/£9.9k) of taxpayers' money to pay for a Canadian chef to be flown out to India, in order to cook Indian food for him during his visit there.
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07 May 2021

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