MONTREAL – NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair has informed the media that the wage gap between party campaign workers is just how $17 per hour in English translates differently into French and Punjabi.
“These wages are a direct translation,” explained Mulcair while on the campaign trail in Ontario. “The NDP has always stood for wage equity according to someone’s native tongue. This translation is just like how ‘I support the Energy East Pipeline’ in English, means ‘I will not support the Energy East Pipeline until environmental reviews’ in French. It’s that simple.”
Many NDP candidates have been using the party’s official French-English dictionary as a guide, which provides a very nuanced translation for both official languages to ensure contradictory messages do not confuse anyone.
Mulcair also clarified ‘national unity’ in English actually means ‘Fifty plus one’ and a wink in French
