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OTTAWA — Tom Mulcair is having a little trouble with numbers even as he attempts to reassure the business community that New Democrats would be prudent managers of the public purse.

The NDP leader told a Bay Street audience Tuesday that his child care plan “over the next 10 years will deliver one million, $15-a-day child care spaces across Canada.”

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In fact, the NDP plan is to be rolled out over eight years.

An aide said the 10-year reference was a “speechwriter error.”

Then on Wednesday, Mulcair told CBC Radio’s The Current that the existing corporate tax rate is “about 12, 13 (per cent), something like that right now.”

In fact, the corporate tax rate, which Mulcair has vowed to raise by an unspecified amount, is 15 per cent.

Mulcair said later that he was referring to the difference between the combined federal-state corporate tax rate in the United States and the combined federal-provincial tax rate in Canada.