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So far in the last 10 minutes, the Office of the Leader of the Opposition has sent me six different versions of the same press release, asserting that the government is negligent in official-language matters.

The confusion seems to stem from considerable difficulty figuring out how to write "negligent" in French. The variations so far are amusing. I have to assume more are on the way.

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