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Originally Posted by Tron_fdc
Fair enough, if you want to debate the semantics of my interpretation of "one of" or "significant" in relation to my opinion of government spending and how it relates to the scope of aboriginal affairs have at 'er. Is top 10 not "one of" the biggest? What's your criteria? Because in my in my opinion, if we're using 10 billion (your number) it's big enough to qualify for (in my mind) heavy scrutiny.
My point still stands though. It's a crapload of money, and because it's what I would call a large expenditure it should come along with a high degree of transparency.
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Sorry, I didn't mean to quibble. As I said, it is clearly a large expenditure and no doubt warrants scrutiny (as all government spending does.) I would however note that the $10 billion dollar figure is not necessarily "Aboriginal specific" spending; includes health, education, etc. which is funding provided to all Canadians).