Tory Senators make $27.8-million worth of funding announcements weeks prior to election call

'They had to get this stuff out of the barn before the barn door closed,' says Liberal candidate Mark Eyking.

PARLIAMENT HILL—Despite Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s condemnations of the unelected Senate and the recent scandals over Senator expenses, his government assigned six Conservative Senators to announce $27.8-million worth of federal handouts across the Atlantic provinces in a three-...

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