In the final week before the 45th general election got underway, Liberal MPs engaged in a pre-election spending blitz, announcing $3.86 billion in funding commitments for 411 different projects across the country, a Global News analysis shows.

Press releases and announcements about those funding commitments were made by 38 different Liberal MPs in that final week, who handed out cheques in 37 different communities across the country, from Yellowknife to Winnipeg to St. John’s.

On the day before the election started alone, 26 different MPs were busy handing $1.8 billion worth of cheques to support 116 different projects across the country.

And yet, that’s been the pattern since the for each of the last four Parliaments during which Global News has maintained a database of every spending

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