CTV broke codes in Dion Interview (CBSC says)

[CaptainCrunch]

Seems like a logical question to me

[Devils'Advocate]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Seems like a logical question to me

If you think the "NOW" belongs in this sentence:
"If you were prime minister now, what would you have done about the economy"
Then I have to question YOUR language skills. In, presumably, your FIRST language. The time indicator given ("NOW") does not match the tense of the sentence. Which is obviously what threw Dion because when he asked to stop and clarify, he asked if the question was about what he would do NOW or what he would have done a year ago.

And yes, I think Steve Murphy is a tool and was trying to make a name for himself. I stopped watching "Live at Five" when Dave Wright retired. Nancy Regan was okay, but Steve is a tool.

[ben voyonsdonc]

The best way to phrase the question:
- if you had been the Prime Minister, what would you have done differently than Stephen Harper did?

I know as an FSL person, I would be confused if someone started mixing up tenses...sure as an anglophone, I can make sense out of almost any english question that comes my way...Dion would have done the same if the question was in French. Dion should have not have started answering the question until the reporter clarified it.