The one I have never figured out:

1. Are "the 1,500" being laid off? That was the supposed number of paid communications staffers the Conservatives had the civil service employ to do such things as post online. I haven't seen anything, and since a clerk at a federal office in Swift Current being laid off makes the news, it is hard to imagine that 1,500 being laid off would not..

2. Or have the Liberals now instructed "the 1,500" to post pro-Liberal opinions..

3. They never existed.

Which is it?