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With the release of the NDP platform on Monday, it’s safe to say Wynne won’t outflank the NDP leader on the left again.

The platform is 100 pages. It contains multitudes

We knew about the universal dental care: a private/public hybrid that would allow the currently insured to keep their plans while forcing all employers, and the self-employed, to buy coverage from private providers or the government. We knew about the pharmacare plan: all-public coverage for the most commonly prescribed drugs. And we knew about the hydro plan: returning to public ownership and a 30 per cent cut in rates, somehow at no real cost to the treasury.

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We now have an ambitious daycare plan: a 50 per cent increase in the number of public licensed spots over five years, with tuition free for households making under $40,000 and a median means-tested cost of $12 per day for those making more. We have an ambitious healthcare plan: $19 billion over 10 years for hospital expansion, and a 5.3 per cent annual increase in health-care funding overall. Education: Students loans will be interest-free retroactively; in future, student loans will be grants. Affordable housing: 65,000 new units, just to start.

The platform is 100 pages. It contains multitudes. And it’s all going to be paid for, in part, with a tax hike on big corporations and the rich: an extra income tax point for those earning more than $220,000, and two for those earning over $300,000.

The party is flying a flag that's been in storage for some time

You’ll be able to cancel your cellphone contract without penalty; gasoline prices will have “stability and transparency;” and an NDP government would declare war on the “pink tax,” which is to say dry cleaners and hairdressers won’t be able to charge women more than men for similar services (which is at least theoretically conceivable) and retailers won’t be able to sell girls’ toys and boys’ toys for different prices (which is less so).