Municipalities are being told if they want federal infrastructure cash, they have to pay for and install additional signs at each project promoting the federal government's economic action plan.
The signs can cost between $1,000 and $7,000 apiece. That, when multiplied by the thousands of projects approved, means municipalities could spend as much as $45 million on the four-coloured signs — which have the same visual style as the government's $100 million advertising campaign promoting its economic action plan [Read the rest]
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«”For $45 million, the Conservative government could hire 3,000 extra nurses, or double the number of vaccination sites, or extend the hours of operation to accelerate flu vaccinations,” Liberal MP Ralph Goodale said in the House of Commons Wednesday. “Local tax dollars are being forced to finance Conservative propaganda.”»
Where are all those 3000 nurses to come from? Are they in witness protection programs, hiding out as cashiers in supermarkets or hamburger flippers at McD's?
Maybe one way “to accelerate flu vaccinations” would be Liberal MPs trained as MDs in their former lives rolling up their sleeves to help administer some of those vaccines.