Annnd ... they're off!!
Starting Line: $1,100,000,000,000 in debt
(that's a 1 and twelve zeros, folks!)
It's a race to see who can promise to spend the most tax dollars to buy your vote and pander to special interest groups. Here is the list since the House rose for the summer. Updated daily -- or hourly now that the election campaign has begun -- this will be head-spinning!
JT, JS EO'T
$3.8 TRILLION ($3,800 Billion)
Interest payments on accumulated debt from past overspending according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer not counting these new promises
JT
$1 Billion: To implement Vaccine Passports (for 4 months)
JT
$4 Billion: Pay for people to repair their homes
MB
$595 Million CUT of corporate welfare to big media firms
MB
$1 Billion CUT to CBC budget
EO'T
$60 Billion: Cash dump to provincial governments
MB
$0.00: Will NOT make ANY vote-buying spending announcements
EO'T
Won't tell $$M: Pay for half your dinner at restaurants! Huh?
JT
$610 Million: Unnecessary power-grabbing election
JS
Won't tell $Billion (PBO says $25B): Federal intrusion into Pharmacare
JT
$693 Million: Corporate welfare to Quebec's Pratt & Whitney
EO'T
Won't tell $$M: Creation of a Quebec centre on how to grow food
JT
$6 Billion: More-of-the-same health care
JT
Gave himself TWO pay raises during pandemic
JS
Gave himself TWO pay raises during pandemic
EO'T
Gave himself TWO pay raises during pandemic
JT
$5.2 Billion: Bailout of Muskrat Falls white elephant hydro project
JT, JS EO'T
$3.8 TRILLION: Interest payments on accumulated debt from past overspending according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer
JS
$165 Billion: Constructing housing projects
EO'T
Won't tell $ Billion: Highway tunnel in Vancouver
JS
Won't tell $ Billion: "Million Jobs Plan'
JT
$605 Million: NS childcare
EO'T
Won't tell $ Billion: Cash to provinces for mental health care
JT
$22 Million: Wharf repairs in Nova Scotia
JT
$1.1 Billion: Broadway transit line in Vancouver
JT
$120 Million: Apartment building in Brampton
JT
$500 Million: Corporate welfare for travel companies
JT
$1.5 Billion: Calgary’s green line
JT
$222 Million: Alberta’s Rent Supplement Program
JT
$9.2 Billion: BC childcare
EO'T
$1.3 Billion: Spur line to Surrey SkyTrain
JT
$1.3 Billion: Spur line to Surrey SkyTrain
JT
$420 Million: Corporate welfare for Algoma Steel mill upgrade
MB
$10 Billion CUT to Corporate Welfare
JT
$4.4 Billion: 1st phase of high frequency train to Ottawa