From a comment by an Alberta Canada reporter on TV yesterday (edited)

Recently the Canadian government purchased two executive Chalenger jets
to be used to taxi politicians around. Cost 100 million. A government
program lost another 100 million in a Quebec program. If this money could
be recovered and one carefully shopped on eBay we could have doubled the
size of our air force! Better yet, it is estimated that the government
spent up to 2 Billion on a gun registration program that still doesn't work.
Hell, if we had that money we could have been a Super Power! :-(