The Luminato festival in Toronto has received $25 million over the past three years. One of the signature art pieces of the '09 festival is nothing but an inflatable red ball made by a U.S. citizen., Kurt Peschke. Here, the CTF asks Kurt why he should get Canadian taxpayers' dollars. Let's just say he doesn't like the question.

CTF Federal Director Kevin Gaudet tells CTV's Dan Matheson about how and why the Teddy winners got their waste awards. March 11, 2009.

Porky the Pig, Samantha the Model, and Federal Director Kevin Gaudet hosted the Canadian Taxpayers Federation's annual Teddy Waste Awards on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on March 11, 2009. Winners included the Canada Council for the Arts for funding a poop machine and a flying banana, a Manitoba welfare agency for its "spa days", the City of Vancouver for its Olympic Village project, and the Big 3 auto makers for sucking up corporate welfare.

In a sequel to the CTF presentation, the Dragons give the CTF idea the thumbs up, offering $5 billion in tax cuts. No other presenter recieved more than $3.5 billion and two (students and the auto sector) received zero. First broadcast on CBC on January 23, 2009.

On January 21, 2009, the CBC ran a special version of Dragons' Den. The panel was given a fictitious $20 billion to boost the economy. Various sectors came forward to propose where the money should go. We said it should go back into the hands of the people.