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Originally Posted by John Doe
What can I say, you got me there. Nowhere does he say what you have in quotations (notice, however, I didn't use quotation marks when I wrote my post).
What he did say is this:I took this to mean (as it also appeared to mean to the person who wrote the article) that he was saying that he was saving the taxpayers money by not using government resources, meanwhile neglecting to mention that is precisely what he has been doing for a number of years and also neglecting to mention that half of every dollar spent by the parties is refunded back to the parties through rebates after the election. He also failed to mention that his government recently changed the law so that they would also be able to spend about twice as much this election and half of this new spending would have to be paid by the tax payers.
Please note that what I wrote above is my interpretation of what he said and not his exact words. That is why I didn't use quotation marks to signify that those were his words.
Edit: beaten to the punch by edslunch
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I think Harper was indirectly targeting Trudeau's "Conservative advertising in the guise of government advertising" criticisms. Whether or not he was trying to argue he is saving taxpayer money this way (and he probably is), he also diminishes one of Trudeau's talking points.