Scoffield: Politics matters – cars, Carr and Quebec

Any hope the Liberals had of a quiet Thanksgiving break melted away quickly this week, even with MPs back in their ridings and the party leaders politicking in distant places.
The hullabaloo over the government’s tax proposals degenerated into a head-scratcher, with the governing party having to revise, re-explain and eventually retract an obscure tax change on retail employees’ benefits that suddenly grabbed the public’s interest.
While it’s still unclear whether slivers