The exchange you can’t miss from this afternoon’s Question Period
NDP Leadership candidate Peggy Nash answers a question while Nathan Cullen looks on during a Federal NDP town hall leadership meeting at the B.C. NDP Convention in Vancouver, Saturday December 10, 2011. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Richard Lam
During today’s Question Period, NDP finance critic Peggy Nash mentioned the Conservative government’s move to eliminate tariffs on some items—hockey equipment, as an example—but raise tariffs on many others. Ted Menzies, the secretary of state for finance, responded that the government has moved to lower tariffs for certain countries, measures he characterized as foreign aid.