ALL PROJECTS ARE CREATED EQUAL BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS

Conservatives love to claim Trudeau is spending their children's inheritances.  Except wait...

Now, to be fair roughly $92 Billion of Harper's spend was left on the table by Trudeau because it was committed to infrastructure projects that put Canadians to work, so while the amounts were budgeted during Harper years they weren't necessarily spent then.

And Trudeau could've cancelled or post-poned those projects in favour of others.  In fact, normally a new government will, so kudos for him allowing a percentage of what may have been partisan driven projects in communities that didn't vote for him to continue.

And this table was done for fiscal year 2018 so it doesn't include any pre-2019 election spending Trudeau has promised or the 2019 commitments made during the 2015 election (which cumulatively adds another $100 Billion more in infrastructure spending commitments to what Harper budgeted for, which will add another 10% in the Justin column and put him square with what his Dad spent).

But then, infrastructure spending is overdue in a country where bridges have collapsed, highways have given way to massive potholes, cities have closed streets because of water main breaks and trains have derailed because of insufficient maintenance and repair to the their tracks.  Infrastructure spending is supposed to be about things we can all use and many rely on.

And while the occasional pet project is surely to have slipped into Justin's list, Harper's government had some interesting pet projects too.

He spent $2 million to build a gazebo, $100 thousand to lower a chandelier, $22 million to construct a fake lake that sat literally 250 metres from Lake Ontario, $1 billion for a G-20 summit (not including damages the province and city were never compensated for) and $1 million for a bullet proof limo.

But Canadians may be interested to know that Harper (and since he was part of the Harper government, Andrew Scheer) also gave of YOUR tax dollars away to some other rather niche infrastructure projects, such as:
$4.2 Million to the Newman Theological College
$3.2 million to Youth for Christ in Winnipeg
$192,000 to the world of Truth Christian Center
$495,600 to Wycliffe Bible Translators
$357,100 to Chakam School of the Bible Inc.
$198,900 to National Evangelical Spiritual Baptist Faith International Centre of Canada
$2.9 million to Redeemer University College
and $2.6 million to Trinity Western University.

This doesn't include the roughly $17 Million spent over 4 years on the Office of Religious Freedoms, which was primarily focused on threats to Christian groups abroad and the promotion and inclusion of religious dogma at Canadian public post-secondary Universities and Colleges that were not part of any religious organization.  Surprisingly it was stunningly quiet on the sudden increase in Jewish hate crimes in Canada or the increase attacks on the Mulsim, Sikh and Buddhist faiths.

But then why would it, those aren't real religions, right?