When it comes to politics and lying the two seem to go hand in glove. We’ve always considered politicians a bit shady, willing to bend the truth to suit their purposes. Yet it can be difficult to distinguish outright lying from differences of opinion, selective perception, variances in grasp and
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Dead Wild Roses: Lying for Fashion
I learned very early on that following The Fashion just wasn’t worth the hassle and that it just didn’t deliver what it promised. When I was three years old, I thought it would be super cool to have spiky hair. And for the first little while, it was cool. But
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Conservatives Lied About F-35 Contract
Peter MacKay lied. In 2010 Defense Minister Peter MacKay said many times that the F-35 was selected in an open, competitive, and transparent process, this is contradicted be the Auditor General Michael Ferguson who has said there was no competition, that the costly $25 billion, and growing, contract was indeed
Continue readingkirbycairo: Lying is Government Policy. . . .
Yesterday Andrew Coyne (once the great apologist for the Harpercons) tore a strip of Peter MacKay and the Government in general so long and so deep that if these events were taking place a generation ago we would see the entire cabinet resign in disgrace. Coyne demonstrates that MacKay (and
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