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More than half of the money the federal government set aside for a low-interest loans program as part of the Economic Action Plan went to municipalities in Quebec, documents obtained by the Citizen show.

And by far the biggest chunk of the money went to the city of Montreal.

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Details of the loans, which were distributed through the $2-billion Municipal Infrastructure Loan Program (MILP) for infrastructure projects, are emerging as such government spending — made through arms-length agencies, in this case the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. — is under scrutiny.

The Parliamentary Budget Officer has raised concerns about the oversight of such loans, and pointed to the increasing amount of government spending that’s being done in this way.

While there’s nothing to indicate any wrongdoing in the latest data, the details do raise questions about how municipalities in one province were allowed to take so much of a national fund.