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Taxpayer cash used to fund $19.4M in partisan research, records show

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Access-to-information records show Ottawa used an expensive “Digital Citizen Initiative” to fund partisan research to the tune of $19.4 million over four years .

The initiative was launched in 2019 by then-democratic institutions minister Karina Gould .

Records show public funds were used for partisan purposes like polling Liberal preferences of Black voters and tracking “anti-Liberal” posts on Twitter , now known as X.

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English

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78

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