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Check out this cool tool.

It costs out how much you, dear voter, will be paying to support three – only three! – Stephen Harper initiatives: fighter jets, jails, and growing the oil patch.

Based on costs of the F35s and prisons as estimated by the Parliamentary Budget Officer (could run higher, see the National Post today); and government records of subsidies to oil companies.

The blogosphere can make it pretty hard to duck accountability, eh?