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The NDP would pay for future spending commitments by raising corporate income taxes back to the level they were at when the Conservatives took office in 2006, said party leader Tom Mulcair.

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Tom Mulcair is in a jovial mood in his ornate Parliament Hill office, despite polls that suggest his party is mired in third place, as much as 10 points behind the Liberals, from first place when he was elected leader just 20 months ago.

“My staff tease me that I’m a 140-word guy in a 140-character world,” he jokes.

Interviewing him is like sitting under Niagara Falls, such is the deluge of information. Perhaps it’s because of the constant stream of coffee from his personal espresso machine. But the near stream of consciousness is instructive in getting a sense of what Canada under an NDP government might look like.