....more than we are able to give right now," Trudeau said.....
That's really "rich" considering the spending of this government.
https://twitter.com/ottawaspends
https://globalnews.ca/news/3600967/tracking-federal-government-spending/
NOTEBOOK: How we use Twitter to keep track of thousands of federal government spending announcements - David Akin - 15 Jul 17
These days, your federal government is spending about $310 billion a year and you may wonder, where on earth does all that money go?
The answer is: Most of it is transferred to provinces and territories; a big chunk is transferred to individuals in the form of old age benefits, child benefits, EI payments and the like; a sizeable chunk is used to pay down the debt; a lot is used to pay 250,000 civil servants, 80,000 or so Canadian Forces members, and around 30,000 members of the RCMP.
Believe it or not, that still leaves lots left over for politicians to hand out. And whenever a politician hands out some money, you can bet there will be a press release so that one and often several politicians can be seen taking some credit (or blame) for handing out the money.
Here’s an MP, Dan Ruimy from B.C., who proudly tweeted a picture of himself handing out a novelty cheque drawn on the federal government’s bank account:
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I’ve been told by PMO sources, by the way, that MPs are largely discouraged from using novelty cheques in funding announcements.
In any event, since March, 2009 whenever a spending announcement is made, I’ve been tracking key details from each spending announcement in a database I maintain. I use that database from time to time to pull summary information about spending announcement patterns.
For example: As of this writing, the Ontario riding of Algoma–Manitoulin–Kapuskasing, held by New Democrat MP Carol Hughes, has had more projects funded during the life of this Parliament than any other riding in the country. Our database has logged 97 different projects in Hughes’ riding worth a combined $54.5 million.
By contrast, just two projects worth a combined $787,669 were approved in which all the money would be spent in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau‘s Montreal riding of Papineau.
Thanks to this database, we can tell you that nearly two years into the 42nd Parliament, the Trudeau government has made about 6,800 different funding announcements letting MPs take credit for a combined $31-billion in spending on everything from a new sewer line to a new roof on a curling club to new research labs to new affordable housing projects.
By contrast, the Harper government, over the entire length of the 41st Parliament, made 7,308 spending announcements for a combined $45 billion.
And every single one of those 13,000-plus spending announcements in the last Parliament and the current one is in my database.
And just about all of those are also on Twitter via a special Twitter account I’ve set up called @OttawaSpends.
Every time I put a spending announcement in my database, I also tweet it out. If you follow @OttawaSpends, you too can track every federal government spending announcement. For example, that photo of the gazebo, er, picnic shelter, pictured above with Liberal MP TJ Harvey was tweeted out like this:
(at link)
Continued at link.
