We asked for your reaction to up to $43.7 billion (before cost overruns) of Canadians’ tax dollars being allocated to a proposed gas pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast.

Good investment, as Energy Minister Tim Hodgson averred?

Or could you think of better ways to invest approximately $1,000 per person living in Canada?

Turns out, you had plenty of better ideas. Check them out below.