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.
JT, JS E'OT
$3.8 TRILLION in interest payments on the debt according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer
JT
$120 million apartment building in Brampton
JS
Won't tell $ billion for "Million Jobs Plan'
JT
$500 million corporate welfare for travel companies
JT
$605 million for NS childcare
E'OT
Won't tell $billion cash to provinces for mental health care
JT
$1.3 billion for a spur line to Surrey SkyTrain
JT
$1.1 billion for Broadway transit line in Vancouver
JT
$9.2 billion for BC childcare
E'OT
$1.3 billion for a spur line to Surrey SkyTrain
JT
$1.5 billion in funding for Calgary’s green line
JT
$222 million to Alberta’s Rent Supplement Program
JT
$22 million for wharf repairs in Nova Scotia
JT
$4.4 billion for 1st phase of high frequency train to Ottawa
JT
$420 million corporate welfare for Algoma Steel mill upgrade
MB
$10 billion CUT to Corporate Welfare
MB
$1 billion CUT to CBC budget