Prime Minister Stephen Harper was elected on Jan. 23, 2006. That was 387 days ago or one year and 22 days. Yet his Conservatives still call themselves “Canada’s New Government”?
I covered this announcement today. Three times the press release refers to “Canada’s New Government.” Ministers Lawrence Cannon and John Baird also repeatedly used the phrase during the press conference.
My Canadian Oxford Dictionary defines “new” as “of recent origin or arrival” or “made, invented, discovered, acquired, or experienced recently or now for the first time.”
So how long can something be called “new”? Just wondering.
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February 14, 2007 at 12:12 pm
I link to this post here: http://www.moscovitch.com/2007/02/out-with-new.html
Drop by for another fun bit about Canada’s New Government.