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As Canada’s worst election ever staggers toward the finish line, a theme has finally emerged. Despite the best efforts of the party leaders to say nothing coherent or true at any point, we know what it’s about. Everyone is running against the Tories. Including the Tories. Makes you wonder what they’re so afraid of.

Jagmeet Singh let the cat out of the bag about the theme when he confessed that yes, should his party unaccountably fail to win a majority of seats for the 18th straight time since its 1961 founding, he would consider a coalition with … Oh come off it. We all know the answer. Another of the three social democratic parties in this election, trading ferocious rhetorical barbs over trivial differences.

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The NDP, Greens and Liberals are basically similar people ideologically and even sociologically, especially since the NDP’s old CCF religious Prairie populist wing flapped off to join the Tories. Truth be told, the Bloc are similar, too. The separatist thing is a bit awkward but not fatal, as Stéphane Dion’s hapless Blunderall coalition proved. Besides, who among us wouldn’t pander to Quebec?