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No cash, no signs: Tories made stimulus funds contingent on erecting billboards


Political | 206743 hits | Sep 08 8:33 pm | Posted by: hurley_108
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Millions of dollars in taxpayer stimulus cash doled out by the Harper government was conditional upon project managers putting up federal promotional signs, The Canadian Press has learned.

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  1. by avatar Arctic_Menace
    Fri Sep 10, 2010 4:57 am
    Surprise, surprise... :roll:

  2. by avatar hurley_108
    Fri Sep 10, 2010 5:10 am
    The Liberals made them do it, though. Right?

  3. by avatar Gunnair Gold Member
    Fri Sep 10, 2010 5:32 am
    "hurley_108" said
    The Liberals made them do it, though. Right?



    Uhhhh..... yeah! Sheesh... :roll:










    :wink:

  4. by jeff744
    Fri Sep 10, 2010 5:35 am
    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.

  5. by ASLplease
    Fri Sep 10, 2010 5:50 am
    did the libs put up billboards when the adscam money was stolen under the guise of 'national unity'?

  6. by jeff744
    Fri Sep 10, 2010 6:02 am
    I would love to know just how much taxpayer money is being wasted on Harper's free advertising campaign.

  7. by avatar sandorski
    Fri Sep 10, 2010 6:16 am
    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).

  8. by avatar hurley_108
    Fri Sep 10, 2010 12:20 pm
    "jeff744" said
    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™?



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