A six-storey tall giant yellow inflatable duck is proving to be an easy target for ridicule after it was revealed Canada 150 funding would go toward paying its six-figure rental fee. The $200,000 price tag for the supersized waterfowl stirred some ruckus in the Ontario legislature Monday. Progressive Conservative MPP Rick Nicholls got cheeky and called the installation an “absolute cluster duck.” Get it?

A tall ship parade and the Los Angeles debut of Dutch artist Florentijin Hofman giant yellow ducky. An replica version, unaffiliated with Hofman's project, will tour Ontario waterfront communities this summer. (Photo: Ted Soqui/Corbis via Getty Images) “It's an absurd waste of taxpayers' dollars,” he said. The duck will be touring Ontario waterfront communities as part of the Redpath Waterfront Festival and Ontario 150 tour. Organizers say the famous duck is meant to draw a family crowd to the festival, where they can also enjoy musical dance performances, a lumberjack show, and tours of a navy frigate. Lea Parrell, co-producer of the festival and tour, told HuffPost Canada she would have loved to have a more patriotic animal blow up — if there was money available. “We wanted to do a loon,” she said, but the cost to commission that kind of project would have been “astronomically expensive.”

Photo of a common loon. (Photo: Jim Cumming via Getty Images) “I would have absolutely have loved to have done a beaver or loon,” she said. But the $120,000 in government funding wasn’t enough to cover the cost of a custom giant inflatable beaver or loon. Instead, they will stick with the plan to rent the World’s Largest Rubber Duck from an American man who owns the giant yellow mallard. It has been touring the world since 2007, but hasn’t yet made a stop in Canada. It’s so big, the thing can be seen from space.