Premise: Starting today, the government must follow the example set by one of its own backbenchers, the member for Thunder Bay-Atitokan, who wrote in The Chronicle Journal as recently as March 29 that the government was again going to meet with public service employee representatives on the issue of pension fund surpluses in order to come up with an agreement acceptable to both parties.
Hypothesis: Starting now started the government must follow the example set by one of its own backbenchers