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Originally Posted by Makarov
That compares to $20 billion each year to National Defence, $28.5 billion for health transfers to the provinces, $29 billion for interest costs, 30.5 billion for old age security, and 26 billion for fiscal equalization and social transfer payments (obviously there is some overlap here in that some of this money is included in the $10 billion dollar figured cited above.) So, although spending directed to Aborignal people in Canada is certainly a significant government expense, I'm not sure I would characterize it as "one of the biggest".
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So it is 6th biggest? In my books making it "one of the biggest". he never said it was the single biggest expense by any margin.