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‘Our goal is to deconstruct the language of Canadian politics’: former Liberal MP Campbell publishes online dictionary of ‘unique Canadian political words, terms, phrases’
By Palak Mangat November 30, 2020
'Parli is a live experiment in language, ebbing and flowing between the serious and the absurd, the outrageous and the comical, and the historical and the contemporary,' writes Barry Campbell. Image courtesy of Parli
Have you ever wondered if there was an online dictionary of unique Canadian political words, terms, and phrases? Well, you’re in luck, because former Liberal MP Barry Campbell, who represented St. Paul’s, Ont., from 1993-1997, and may also be remembered as finance minister Paul Martin‘s parliamentary secretary, has what he calls “the world’s only online dictionary” of federal political Canadiana. It’s called Parli, published by Campbell Strategies, and it’s at https://parli.ca
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