Spend It First, Disclose Later

Taxpayers will only learn of terms of a $13 billion Volkswagen Canada subsidy once the money is spent, the Senate national finance committee was told yesterday. Managers with the Department of Industry refused to discuss the subsidy for a battery factory in St. Thomas, Ont.: “I am just trying to get an impact of what that $13 billion is going to be on the government’s deficit.”

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