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1. Shhhhh. The future is bleak. Now back to Mike Duffy

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It’s a good thing everyone in Ottawa is fixated on whether Ray Novak was or was not at a meeting two years ago, because if they started paying attention to the collapse of the China’s economy, the disaster in the oil business and the likely consequences for a country that gets a lot of its prosperity for oil, they might not sleep at night. The latest prediction, that oil could fall to $20, means Rachel Notley might just wish she’d left the job of trying to run Alberta to the Conservatives. It could also mean that if the Liberals or NDP succeed in winning in October, they’ll have a lot tougher task than just announcing the new spending plans for that big surplus that isn’t going to exist.

2. Thomas Mulcair is a happy man

Again, sorry to divert anyone from the Duffy trial, which is, after all, vital to the world’s future, but the NDP is way ahead in Quebec and opening a lead nationally, so it might be an idea at some point for Canadians to start looking what a Mulcair government might mean, as in policies the NDP intends to introduce. It’s not as exciting as Ray Novak, but it could just have some impact on the future.

3. Cops, daycare… there’s NDP money for everyone