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The official rationale for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s recent India trip was to promote foreign investment and trade. But it’s real purpose was all domestic politics.

And specifically, the India trip was all about He-Who-Liberals-Must-Not-Name: Jagmeet Singh, who’s working to build NDP support among Indo-Canadian voters.

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The Liberals are absolutely obsessed and paranoid about The-Opponent-They-Will-Not-Name.

A couple of months ago, Liberal MPs confidently defeated an NDP motion to immediately start provincial discussions about pharmacare. But then, two weeks ago, Don’t-Name-Him told his party convention that universal pharamcare was a key NDP goal. And — bam! — last week’s budget was full of Liberal talk of “national pharmacare.”

Of course, like most things Liberal, the words were deceptive and the policy timid.