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ANALYSIS: Conservatives claim Liberals broke rules with summer spending tour handing out billionsLiberal MPs made 4,545 spending commitments worth $12.8 billion — just in August. Conservatives say Liberals are campaigning on the taxpayer's dime.PoliticsSep 3, 2019
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Liberals continue spending frenzy on eve of election call: $2.8B last weekThe Trudeau Liberals are making spending commitments at a significantly higher pace than the Harper Conservatives did before the 2015 election, a Global News analysis shows.PoliticsAug 26, 2019
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ANALYSIS: N.B., P.E.I. most recent winners of Trudeau government pre-election spendingLast week alone, the federal Liberals made 595 spending commitments worth a combined $4.9 billion.PoliticsAug 19, 2019
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ANALYSIS: In this pre-writ period, Liberal ministers find a fondness for visits to battleground ridingsAs they do every summer, cabinet ministers are criss-crossing the country, making speeches and spending money. But in this pre-election period, their travel is coming under new scrutiny.PoliticsJul 9, 2019
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When it comes to cheque hand-outs, the Trudeau government easily tops Harper’s recordAfter just over two years in office, the Trudeau Liberals have made nearly 9,000 spending announcements, easily eclipsing the 7,300 spending announcements made during the entire four-year majority government of the Harper Conservatives.CanadaJan 5, 2018
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NOTEBOOK: How we use Twitter to keep track of thousands of federal government spending announcementsSince the Trudeau government took office, it has made 6,800 spending announcements, handing out a combined $31-billion on everything for renovations to curling clubs to affordable housing projects. And we track every single one in our exclusive OttawaSpends database.CanadaJul 15, 2017
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