Feds hold back details of largest spending spree in Canadian history, $61-billion and two-year extravaganza

Jean Chrétien's folks hid the flow that funded the Quebec sponsorship scheme and Harper's are holding close the seminal details of the largest spending spree in Canadian history.

OTTAWA—Once upon time, back when the Liberal universe was still unfolding more or less predictably, a benign question was put to Paul Martin's junior health minister. Carolyn Bennett, a medical doctor and sincere politician, was asked how much a government that spends so freely healing Cana...

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