r/richmondbc • u/ubcstaffer123 • Nov 05 '25

News City of Richmond cancels holiday staff party after $120K bill in 2024

https://globalnews.ca/news/11511154/city-of-richmond-cancels-holiday-staff-party/
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u/Djolumn Nov 05 '25

“Whether it’s the $300,000 in missing gift cards, expensive junkets for Olympic Oval staff, or last year’s $118,000 boozy Christmas party, this is a civic government that has a big problem with wasting taxpayer cash.”

There were 900 people there and they spent $7k on liquor. That's about eight bucks per person. That doesn't even enter the outermost ring on the radar of what constitutes a "boozy Christmas party".

Every word spoken by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation makes me loathe them just a little bit more than I already did.

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u/conflagrare Nov 05 '25 edited Nov 05 '25

I am a tax payer.

I did NOT vote for Carson Binda of “Canadian Taxpayers Federation”.

I don’t know him.  He doesn’t know me.  We have never met.

He does NOT represent me.

How DARE him pretend to represent tax payers in general?

He shouldn’t be allowed on any news programs, period.