Hundreds of delegates at a Francophonie conference hosted by Canada’s parliament in Montreal last spring went home with “musical spoons” ordered from Amazon at a cost of more than $1,300, according to federal financial reports. Article content

Attendees at a Parliament-hosted NATO event in the city in November, meanwhile, were gifted scarves, lapel pins and pens in delegate bags on which Ottawa spent almost $25,000. Article content

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And that’s just a small portion of what former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s government spent on the two events. Hundreds of thousands more were doled out for transportation, lavish meals and accommodations, other “hospitality” expenses.

In total, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) said Parliament spent more than

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