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By Mia Rabson THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA- The federal government will repurpose $10.5 billion over the next three years from the budgets of 69 departments, agencies and Crown corporations, Treasury Board President Anita Anand said Thursday. The top-line numbers laying out which departments found savings and how much they’re slashing are contained in the government’s main spending estimates, which were tabled in the House of Commons on Thursday morning. But there is nothing that shows exactly where those funds are being redirected. Anand only provided generalities when pushed to explain why the reports don’t show specifically where the funds are moving. “So what we want to do is take the savings that we are seeing across ministries and put them towards the priorities that you are seeing in our main… <\/p>\n

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By Mia Rabson THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA- The federal government will repurpose $10.5 billion over the next three years from the budgets of 69 departments, agencies and Crown corporations, Treasury Board President Anita Anand said Thursday. The top-line numbers laying out which departments found savings and how much they’re slashing are contained in the government’s main spending estimates, which were tabled in the House of Commons on Thursday morning. But there is nothing that shows exactly where those funds are being redirected. Anand only provided generalities when pushed to explain why the reports don’t show specifically where the funds are moving. “So what we want to do is take the savings that we are seeing across ministries and put them towards the priorities that you are seeing in our main... <\/p>\n

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