Justin Tang
Fact-checking Joe Oliver: Doing the math on budget 2015
Video: Watch as the federal finance minister presents his party’s economic plan
Finance Minister Joe Oliver presented his 2015 budget speech in the House of Commons on Tuesday. While he delivered, so did our team — fact-checking in live-time — what Oliver was saying—and what he really meant. Watch the replay below and check the images to see what we were able to parse out.
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