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There’s probably more to be read into the location of Thomas Mulcair’s latest play for votes than the comments he made there.

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The NDP leader made a big production in Toronto this week of Olivia Chow’s bid to return to federal politics. Chow, you’ll recall, is the former NDP MP who lost to both John Tory and Doug Ford in the last Toronto mayoral campaign and went on to stake out a lush square of pasture at Ryerson University — that was until the the sudden success of the NDP in Alberta and the subsequent shift in the polls made another federal run seem plausible.

Toronto, it seems, is in play — although this particular javelin is aimed at the Liberals rather than the Conservatives (nobody is holding out a lot of hope for Tory candidate Sabrina Zuniga in Canada’s most devoted bleeding dark heart riding of progressivism).

So here’s Mulcair in what will surely be the most-watched race among the downtown Toronto set. It will be a fight for the leftist soul: Olivia Chow vs. Adam Vaughan. And then Mulcair goes for the Full Pander: Toronto is “Canada’s most important city.”

This is not the first time Mulcair has debased himself so thoroughly to win over such a vote-rich battleground.

“I make no bones about the fact that Toronto is Canada’s most important city. That’s a simple statement for me to make,” Mulcair told a local newspaper back in March. “It’s a simple fact. Toronto is Canada’s most important city. It’s the key driver of our economy as Toronto goes, so will go the rest of our economy.”