Timing, as they say, is everything.  Fascinating timing on this "file," when set against recent news items about border crossings. Yet, this story--just released now through a university study (?!)--is YEARS old. Who knew?  Who cared?  Ans. to the first question: the previous Conservative government knew.  Ans. to the second question: not the previous Conservative government. 

Now, what this tends to do in my (suspicious, cynical) mind, is prompt the other question: what's going on--or not going on-- right now that we don't know about?  Perhaps the infrastructure plan announced waayyy back last fall isn't the ONLY file that "lacks transparency."  Still haven't seen a detailed plan--has anybody else, reading this?  (Remember: over $186 billion dollars over 12 years, people!) Those words are in quotation marks because they're not mine, they belong to the government watchdog, Parliamentary Budget Officer Jean-Denis Fréchette.  We just don't know what... we don't know.  Yet.