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Canada’s regional economic development agencies hand out buckets of money every year, and that makes them a delicious channel for funnelling political pork to friendly ridings.

One might expect that the cash flows fastest into ridings that are politically supportive of the governing party.

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That was certainly the case with Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions (CED-Q), which, a 2008 Citizen investigation showed, pumped a disproportionate amount of funding into the 10 seats the Tories then held in the province.

It’s worth reporting, then, when the distribution of cash doesn’t seem to follow an political agenda.

Take, for example, the Western Diversification Program (WDP), which funds not-for-profit organizations’ projects through the economic development agency, Western Economic Diversification Canada (Michelle Rempel, prop.).

The government’s response to an order table question this week broke down $250 million in WDP funding by riding, from 2012-13 to 2014-15.