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Like a rapper flaunting his wealth in a video by rapidly peeling off a stack of bills one by one into the air, Quebec Finance Minister Carlos Leitão made it rain this week.

In fact, Leitão didn’t just make it rain in his free-spending pre-election budget. He produced a Sharknado.

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Yes, sharks were falling from the heavens in Quebec City — figuratively speaking. The spending estimates accompanying the budget included more than $50 million for a new pavilion at the Quebec aquarium for sharks and other aquatic predators.

So, every week can be Shark Week in the Capitale-Nationale region, where the governing Liberals are in danger of losing a half-dozen seats to the Coalition Avenir Québec party in this year’s general election.

The shark money is one of the many bids for votes in the budget, large and, well, larger.

For the young families that all the parties are targeting, there’s an increase in the tax credit for child-care expenses, a new credit for first-time home buyers and money to renovate schools. That’s in addition to the $100 per child for school supplies announced last fall, which parents will receive in July.