A victory for talking points
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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.