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The NDP released its fiscal plan, in an attempt to convince voters they can be trusted not to drive the Canadian economy into the ditch. The result was a modest document, with much to be modest about.

There were no surprise new tax hikes, no massive spending boondoggles — a least none beyond those we already know about.

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The plan more or less balances itself, perhaps inadvertently proving Justin Trudeau’s point. Numbers can do whatever you want them to do, if they bear no relation to reality.

Incremental revenues and savings that result from cancelling Conservative measures like income splitting come in at $29.9-billion over four years.

There are no new surprise tax increases. As expected, corporate income tax will be raised by two points, “fossil fuel subsidies” will be phased out (even though the party could not point out which subsidies they are killing) and the Tories’ tax free savings account will be kept at current levels, rather than doubled, as the Conservatives propose.