The most interesting thing about question period is often what’s not said.
Last week, for instance, the Official Opposition asked not a single question about the federal government’s decision to provide as much as $13 billion in subsidies over the next decade to Volkswagen to help get a massive battery plant up and running in St. Thomas, Ontario.
The Conservatives might plead that there were simply other matters — the public sector strike, the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation — that required their attention. But their relative silence was conspicuous, especially given Pierre Poilievre’s history of deriding “corporate welfare.”
Not that Poilievre has been completely silent
