Pierre Poilievre at the Transport, Infrastructure and Communities Committee

October 3rd, 2011 / 3:55 p.m.

Conservative

Pierre Poilievre Conservative Nepean—Carleton, ON

Thank you very much for appearing before us today.

I can tell you the percentage of GDP that the federal government represents. It's between 13% and 15%. The variation is due to the economic action plan, which was a 2% increase in federal government spending on a temporary basis, but now that that has lapsed we're back in the neighbourhood of 13% of GDP. What is the present percentage of GDP that is constituted by municipal government spending?

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