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Stephen Maher: Elections allow us to get a better read on what the public wants. And the results—and where the parties moved—point to a clear trend.

Andrew MacDougall: The first step to removing the poison that’s infecting our political systems is to stop injecting it. Let’s start at home, on both the right and the left.

My clmn in this week’s print issue of the magazine looks at the notion that what Canada needs is a Unite the Left movement. I think it’s a total non-starter practically, and would be a bad idea even if it were possible. I can’t see how it could do anything except destroy the brands of both the NDP and the Libs. I didn’t have space to talk about the Bloc, but it isn’t hard to extrapolate what I would have said about that.