[Newsbot]

Title: No cash, no signs: Tories made stimulus funds contingent on erecting billboards
Category: Political
Posted By: hurley_108
Date: 2010-09-08 20:33:41
Canadian

[Arctic_Menace]

Surprise, surprise...

[hurley_108]

The Liberals made them do it, though. Right?

[Gunnair]

hurley_108 hurley_108:

The Liberals made them do it, though. Right?

Uhhhh..... yeah! Sheesh...

[jeff744]

People just found this out? I knew something was up when for the first time the government actually put up signs during road maintenance and in various other places that require government money. This started a while ago and is just some shameless advertising.

[ASLplease]

did the libs put up billboards when the adscam money was stolen under the guise of 'national unity'?

[jeff744]

I would love to know just how much taxpayer money is being wasted on Harper's free advertising campaign.

[sandorski]

This hasn't been the Norm for a long time? Here in BC, the Government would erect such signs since the 80's(perhaps even before).

[hurley_108]

jeff744 jeff744:

People just found this out? I knew something was up when for the first time the government actually put up signs during road maintenance and in various other places that require government money. This started a while ago and is just some shameless advertising.

I figured there was probably some sort of heavy-handedness going on, but I never suspected that funding was actually contingent upon signs going up.

Next question is what's the Tories' plan on taking them down? Or are they to be a permanent legacy of Canada's Economic Action Plan™?