Ottawa

A victory for talking points

One can only imagine the glee a politician, in this case Joe Oliver, feels when his own talking point is presented to him by a journalist in the form of a question.

What are your views on NDP leader Thomas Mulcair’s carbon tax idea?

Here, again, are the reasons why this is farcical.

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