| Today, there is no evidence that the gist of his boffo performance on February 5 was anything other than smoke and mirrors. |
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| Maybe no one would quite believe that he had no designs on the top job, but politics is all smoke and mirrors. |
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| Until then, it will look like just so much smoke and mirrors from the old order of duplicity and double standards. |
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| Major accounting firms were all too happy to be deceived by corporate smoke and mirrors, as long as they got lucrative consulting contracts. |
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| The songwriter's lyrics are peppered with references to vampires, premonitions, smoke and mirrors, no strings attached sexual romps and Elvis rising from the dead. |
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| It really is smoke and mirrors to talk about the consolidated revenue fund, taking money out of it and supplementing from other areas. |
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| And I think what's going on here is smoke and mirrors and not science. |
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| In the absence of those two things, the Federal Accountability Act is nothing but smoke and mirrors. |
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| Mr. Speaker, in this context, we see that the Federal Accountability Act was nothing but smoke and mirrors and hypocrisy. |
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| The truth here is not even obscured with the usual smoke and mirrors. |
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| The Conservative minority government is demonstrating a smoke and mirrors approach on this issue at the expense of the safety of Canadians. |
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| The next thing that comes to mind is whether this is all smoke and mirrors. |
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| The elimination of tariffs for the machinery and goods needed to modernize and improve productivity is nothing but smoke and mirrors. |
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| What he is saying is that the government is using smoke and mirrors to hide the deficit in the current year and in the next year. |
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| With smoke and mirrors, he mesmerizes the usually sceptical townsfolk, convincing them that he can build a rainmaking machine. |
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| Mr. Speaker, the Conservative government's third progress report is nothing but smoke and mirrors. |
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| With respect to the home renovation tax credit, we all know that what the government is putting forward is merely smoke and mirrors. |
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| It could make a start by giving substance to the current game of smoke and mirrors around the subject of flexicurity. |
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| Many things were said about that Accord for the purpose of creating misgivings about it or obscuring its true nature with smoke and mirrors. |
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| Mr. Speaker, the most interesting thing is that obviously the hon. member was not listening to what I had to say because the smoke and mirrors of this budget is exactly what he reiterated. |
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| There is no point in putting out the smoke and mirrors and saying we are defining it more carefully if law enforcement officers in Canada are not prepared to enforce the law. |
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| What we get from the government is mostly smoke and mirrors. |
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| We understand that some of this is smoke and mirrors, that it does exist out there but that it gets brought forward, is rehashed and is made to look like it is something new. |
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| Because it has decided to pay down the debt, the government is using smoke and mirrors and more often than not presenting us with budget measures spread over two years-measures it is not giving much attention to. |
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| First and foremost is what I like to call the smoke and mirrors component of the budget which is what is said in the budget that is meant to be helping Canadians and what it really means. |
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| We have seen smoke and mirrors with figures. |
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| He also said that the budget was full of smoke and mirrors. |
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| Clearly, the Auditor General is saying that this is nothing more than smoke and mirrors, that it is really not changing the bottom line, and the bottom line is that we are spending more money than we are taking in. |
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| However, environmental convergence between North and South must take place quickly and the level of emissions must be very low if it is to be an effective measure rather than smoke and mirrors. |
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| In other words, the budget is all smoke and mirrors, smoke coming from the big blue curtain the government hides behind, the distorting mirrors of the Conservatives' media machine that exaggerate and deform the truth. |
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| On revenue raising issues, Mr Harris reveals what a master of smoke and mirrors Bob Carr really is. |
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| They are working hard to put smoke and mirrors up because those two are racing hard. |
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| I understand there are some changes in accounting procedures where you get a bit of a smoke and mirrors element coming in. |
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| Assorted party Quislings should remember that the current paradigm is a tax-payer funded smoke and mirrors game, constructed to bribe people with their own money. |
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