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Is there a path to a Trumpist revolt in Canada? Judging from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s popularity, still at nosebleed levels, and the unimpressive flutter of nativism in the Conservative party, it wouldn’t seem so.

But currents moving just beneath the surface suggest nativism isn’t absent here, but dormant. Under the right (or wrong) conditions, it can emerge in all its enraged, anti-factual glory. All it would take is a failure by Canada’s two major political parties to overcome their own worst instincts.

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Let’s dispense with the whimsy, to start, that the New Democratic Party is a contender for power, as things now stand. NDP support is flirting with single digits and its fundraising has tanked. The party won’t have a leader for another year. A populist rabble-rouser could ignite a Bernie Sanders-style movement, maybe, but no such rabble-rouser has yet stepped forward. So it’s moot.