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Conservative Industry Minister Tony Clement might have some issues to resolve. It seems there is a tinge of favouritism for his very own riding of Parry Sound—Muskoka.

Note the following facts:

His riding received the highest amount of infrastructure funding at $35.8 million. His riding has therefore received the highest amount of all northern Ontario ridings, double the average.

The riding of Parry Sound—Muskoka has the second highest number of arena and community centres projects in Ontario at $2.4million).

Parry Sound—Muskoka has the third highest amount of Building Canada Fund community component funding at $25.9million.

Tony Clement nabbed his riding the highest amount of Community Adjustment Funds in Northern Ontario, and 39 million in funding through the G8 Legacy Infrastructure Fund.

Seeing that he is in charge of such funding, and there is a larger portion of the funding is being pushed to his riding, there seems to be an emphasis on supporting this single Conservative riding.

It isn’t like his riding is in more trouble than the rest of the country. His riding’s unemployment is 6.8%, which is almost on par with the rest of the nation. So it is not like the money is directly needed there more than anywhere else in the country.

The first thought in my mind is that the Conservative government is playing political games with the public penny. Seeing that the Tories are not giving a full disclosure of spending there cannot be anything more than just speculation by the citizenry of Canada.