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If the 2015 Liberal campaign was the Canadian equivalent of Obama’s Hope and Change, then 2019 is about invoking fear and loathing.

“On Oct. 21, we’ve all got a choice to make, keep moving forward and build on the progress we’ve made or go back to the Harper years,” Trudeau said on Monday.

Meanwhile, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer may be looking back, but he’s actually offering voters hope, or at least the hope of money in their pockets. Scheer has announced that if elected, he will bring back tax credits for putting kids into sports or arts programs and a Harper era tax credit for commuters that could put hundreds of dollars a year into the pockets of voters in Canada’s biggest cities.

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That doesn’t even touch on his tax cut that he announced on the weekend, a drop in the tax rate on the first $47,000 from 15% to 13.75%, a move that the Conservatives say will put $850 a year into the pockets of families where both parents earn modest but average incomes.

Do you remember Justin Trudeau’s middle class tax cut from the last election?

If you earned $50,000 a year, you saw little if any effect. If you earned more than $100,000, it did pretty well for you. The average Canadian working full time earns pretty close $50,000 a year.

As I have discussed in previous columns, Canadians don’t feel like the economy is working for them. Yes, economic growth is not bad and unemployment is low but data points and feelings are two different things.

The Liberals know this; they used it to their advantage last election and now four years into governing, it is being used against them.