I would say I am surprised, but I am not.  The Trudeau government is sometimes innovative and sometimes not in their quest to waste as much money as possible.

Some of their promises should in fact be re-examined and not implemented.  Voters were not asked to vote on each individual "promise" and one should remember that.  Each party presented a basket of promises, both good and bad, and one would be unrealistic to expect that they were elected upon the basis of each and every promise.   Implement the good ones, and do not implement the bad ones.  I would be pleased to rate which ones are "good" and which ones are "bad".  Just so there is no confusion.

Does this British person have a work permit to conduct this work in Canada?  Were there local consultations to see if there was a Canadian that could fulfill this task?  

One more wrong headed effort.  Disappointing but not surprising.