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Infestations of bedbugs in federal buildings in Ottawa and across the river in Gatineau, Que., have cost the Liberal government nearly $1 million during the last three years.

According to Blacklock’s Reporter, exterminators were hired to inspect and fumigate 34 federal buildings and search dogs were used to inspect Canada Post headquarters, where 15 cubicles were sprayed on Nov. 30.

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The final bill for extermination of the bedbugs, since 2017, was $575,523 but the figure does not include an additional $400,000 put up by Public Works Canada.

“There is an urgency for the requirement considering the health and safety risks associated with the bedbug situation in the national capital area,” federal bureaucrats wrote, according to Blacklock’s. “The bedbug situation in federal government buildings in the national capital area is unforeseeable as this is something that is not expected in an office setting.”