I really don't see the issue with Trudeau's answer. At that point in the campaign, the Liberals had not yet released their full platform (they just did so earlier today). He almost surely knew the grand total as outlined in the final document, but for the purpose of the campaign, they were staging their announcements over several weeks so they'd have something new and fresh to reveal every few days, just like every party does. Why is it a big deal if he didn't know the exact running tally of his announcements at that given point in time? All that matters is the final number as detailed in the platform document.
I absolutely loathe Harper, but if he (or Mulcair) had done the exact same thing during this campaign, I wouldn't fault him for it in the least. This is just as much of a non-issue as the recent niqab nonsense.
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