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‘Our goal is to deconstruct the language of Canadian politics’: former Liberal MP Campbell publishes online dictionary of ‘unique Canadian political words, terms, phrases’

'Parli is a live experiment in language, ebbing and flowing between the serious and the absurd, the outrageous and the comical, and the historical and the contemporary,' writes Barry Campbell. Image courtesy of Parli
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BY PALAK MANGAT
November 30, 2020
Have you ever wondered if there was an online dictionary of unique Canadian political words, terms, and phrases? Well, you're in luck, because former Liberal MP Barry Campbell, who represented St. Paul's, Ont., from 1993-1997, and may also be remembered as finance minister P...

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