• Official residences in other countries: $38 million.
• Properties in Afghanistan abandoned to the Taliban: $41 million.
• Vacant land in Senegal: $12.5 million.
• A chancery in Ukraine: $10.2 million.

Those are some of the holdings in Global Affairs Canada’s real estate portfolio, which has cost taxpayers $186 million in the past 10 years alone.

All told, Global Affairs Canada owns more than 400 properties in more than 70 countries, according to access-to-information records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.