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Politicians lie because there is no incentive to tell the truth

Andrew Coyne: Politicians lie because there is no incentive to tell the truth Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A party, let’s call them the Quebec Liberals, campaigns on a promise, say, to freeze the price of subsidized daycare, adjusting only for inflation. It attacks its opponents, call them the Parti Québécois, who had proposed raising it from $7 a day to $9, as heartless and out of touch. Sure enough it is elected, only to propose scant months later — surprise! — an increase in day-care rates, to as much as $20 a day for the wealthy, with… View Article