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Trudeau's Spending Priorities Send Too Many Tax Dollars Overseas

It was interesting to read David Akin's numbers on Trudeau's dollar handouts in his first 100 days in office. By his calculations it amounts to $5.3 billion, of which slightly less than a billion dollars was spent inside Canada.

$4.3 billion spent outside of the country will buy you a lot of thanks from some organizations such as the UN or from climate change conferences. That type of spending will also earn you a lot of selfies to up your political profile. But in the end it is our taxpayers footing the bill.

I always wonder when such vast sums of money (in this case, $4.3 billion) are handed out overseas by any government, not just this one, as to who is tracking it to see how it is being spent and if it is being spent properly. Governments rarely tell us what audit procedures have been attached to those funds.

The National Bank has already predicted that Trudeau's spending could result in a $90 billion deficit by the time the next election comes around.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/keith-beardsley/trudeau-deficit_b_9226722.html