OTTAWA — The federal government spent $1.5 billion in a 10-day end-of-fiscal-year spending spree, newly-released records suggest.

And as Canada struggles to meet NATO’s 2%-of-GDP defence spending benchmark, the Department of National Defence far outspent all other departments.

According to a response from an order paper question filed by Conservative MP Connie Cody, government departments bought hundreds of millions of dollars in equipment, office supplies, artwork and appliances, all in the span of a little more than a week,

“If you want proof that government bureaucrats have way too many tax dollars on their hands, look no further than the government’s March Madness spending sprees,” said the Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s Franco Terrazzano.

“It sure seems like government bureaucr

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