Slogans in this campaign are symbolic of our age

The Liberal and Conservative 2019 campaign slogans are out. There is some underlying mean-spiritedness in both. So let’s parse them a bit.

Unlike the Trudeau Liberals' grammatically inept slogan—"Choose Forward"—the Scheer Conservatives' catchline, "It is time for you to get ahead," at least has subject, object, and verb, the basics of any sentence structure, writes Andrew Caddell.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

August 28, 2019

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—Choose Forward. It is time for you to get ahead. Together, they sound like something your mother might have told you before you set off to Grade One. But they are actually the slogans of the two main contending parties in the October election. To be fair, the Conservative Party ...

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