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On Friday morning, Tom Mulcair made an announcement in front of a two-lane bridge in London, Ont., that has been closed since 2013 for safety reasons.

It just goes to show how the Conservatives have neglected Canadian infrastructure, he said, creating a $172-billion “infrastructure deficit.”

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“Conservatives, like the Liberals before them, have failed to invest in Canada’s cities and small towns,” he said. “Roads and bridges are crumbling. Buses and trains are overflowing.”

A New Democratic Party government would change all that, of course, transferring $1.5 billion to municipalities in the first year in power, eventually going up to $3.7 billion annually.

After the announcement, I asked Mulcair if an NDP government would make farmers and hunters register their shotguns.

“We have no intention of bringing back a gun registry,” he said.

“The failure of the last gun registry, its phenomenal cost of $1 billion, and the fact that is was so inflexible — you know, a grandfather hunting with his grandson, and the slightest glitch in his papers and the only option was a criminal prosecution. The police have never asked for that. Now, I do want to make sure our police have the tools necessary … but the NDP has no intention whatsoever of bringing back the gun registry.”