This and that for your evening reading.
- pogge points out yet another Con slush fund, as public money earmarked for green infrastructure was instead diverted to oil, gas and forestry companies.
- Meanwhile, the Cons' attempt to paint a proliferation of oil pipelines as a matter of national unity leaves little room for doubt that we can expect future appropriations to similarly find their way into the hands of the corporate resource sector.
- Speaking of which, Bill Doyle helpfully warns the people of the province that's handed him hundreds of millions of dollars that they'd better not get uppity about claiming a share of their resources for themselves.
- Finally, Andrew Jackson points out that the Canadian banks cited as models of stability received plenty of bailouts of their own. Though it's well worth noting that Canada's freebies may well have been less a matter of the banks actually needing them than a desire to make sure they weren't any less rewarded for global financial turmoil than their foreign counterparts.
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