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We’re less than a week out from the first election debate and Major Tom Mulcair is still defying ground control at the top of the polls.

How thru the looking glass are we with the NDP? Well, Mr. Mulcair – i.e. the leader of the party that has never met someone else’s dollar it couldn’t spend – this week topped a poll on which leader would most positively impact the economy.

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This isn’t how it was supposed to be. Everyone knows that Stephen Harper is Mr. Economy and Justin Trudeau was meant to march at the front of the change jamboree.

With Mr. Mulcair so far resisting the urge to knock himself down a peg, what can the Prime Minister or Mr. Trudeau do to arrest the NDP?

The Prime Minister doesn’t need any advice from me; he’s a veteran campaigner and has the might of the state to back him up; witness the millions of baby bucks currently flowing into parents’ bank accounts. He’s also got the heavy artillery of the Conservative Party to blitz the opposition with advertising.