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Numbers, crunched.

Glen and Stephen have been busy.

The Citizen-Chronicle Herald analysis took all the Building Canada projects on the actionplan.gc.ca website — where they are given an exact location but no exact dollar figure — and paired them with dollar figures available from other federal government sources. The analysis then added other projects announced on the federal infrastructure site.

It was not possible to find dollar figures for all the projects without locations, or to find locations for all the projects with dollar figures, so the database of about 4,200 projects is incomplete. But it offers the only independent large-scale look at the massive infrastructure spending push.

My bold.


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