Juno News - September 16, 2019Government money is going to Liberal ridings
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Over the summer, billions of dollars was spent by the Trudeau government towards key ridings across the country, and much of it was targeted towards key areas where the Liberals are the incumbent. We know that politicians will promise the moon in an effort to get your vote, but what's astonishing is just how brazen their efforts to quite literally buy your votes are.
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we know that politicians will promise the moon in an effort to get your vote but what's astonishing
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is just how brazen their efforts to quite literally buy your votes are this has been
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something true north has been covering for several months now over the summer months
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billions of dollars spent by the government and much of it towards key ridings areas that the
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government or specifically the liberals want to or need to hold on to in order to form government
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once again but an interesting report from canadian press shows that 75 percent of government
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announcements over the summer of money things like grants to local farmers or local festivals 75
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percent of the money the government has doled out this summer has gone towards liberal ridings this
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is what the report says liberal ridings were the primary recipient of government largesse comprising
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about 75 percent of the total of those the local mp was either on hand or the person who delivered
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the good news 80 percent of the time several key areas received a significant amount of attention
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from liberal politicians over the summer especially in quebec now the quebec connection was one that
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piqued the interest of the researchers at true north as well who did a report earlier in the summer
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finding that of the 4.63 billion dollars the trudeau government spent since the house of commons rose
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for the summer a clear majority of the money went to quebec and more importantly the rest of it was it
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seemed very much targeted towards battleground ridings or areas where the liberal is the incumbent
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but the government is literally spending money by the billions per week just take a look at this
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report which found that 4.9 billion dollars spread over 595 spending announcements was spent in just
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one august week just one week in august now obviously the government is a little bit more restricted in
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what it can do now that the election is officially on but make no mistake the time that was being spent
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this summer with no house of commons in session was campaign time it just wasn't being called that
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which means the federal government has taken the benefit its primary advantage of incumbency and is
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using that to spend billions of dollars in a very cynical maneuver to it seems like advantage itself
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to win an election in october now it's easy for people to say about this oh well all parties did it
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and indeed the conservatives took advantage of being the incumbents back in 2015 and made similar
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announcements but not nearly the volume that the liberals are and more importantly that doesn't
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make it right in the same way that government advertising is a manipulative way to promote your
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own party's brand government spending in election years is just plain wrong because you're doing something
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that the other party cannot do and when you look at this amount there's no reason that much of this money
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couldn't have been spent two years ago three years ago because some of these things are ongoing
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commitments or re-announcements of money that had already been pledged and this is why when canadians
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are looking at what's going on here in this election it's important to look at the facts and when the
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government says but we've done this and this and this for you ask the question of why and why announcement
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and why announce it now so what the liberals have done is spent billions of dollars and for canadians
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to look up and say huh it looks like these guys are doing lots for me that's what they want you to believe
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true north is covering this election and doing it in a way the mainstream media isn't covering
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perspectives the mainstream media isn't we can't do this alone if you can chip into our election
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the description box and give us a hand for true north i'm andrew lutton