Tories’ $309-million funding announcements ‘smell like a pre-election rehearsal,’ say opposition parties

After a week-long government binge of well over $309-million worth of spending announcements in more than 100 ridings across the country and the opposition promising a Parliamentary ‘root canal’ to extract details of the controversy over CIDA Minister Bev Oda’s doctored documents, Ekos pollster Frank Graves says a snap election call next month is inevitable.

 PARLIAMENT HILL—After a week-long federal government binge of well over $309-million worth of spending announcements in more than 100 ridings across the country and the opposition promising a Parliamentary “root canal” to extract details of the controversy over Intern...

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