Ottawa

High praise

Stephen Gordon considers the comparative ramifications of the NDP platform.

The party that wins the election will be forced to face that fact that the federal deficit is not going to go away on its own, and that the measures in its platform would make it worse. This election is the first in which the prospect that this government might be formed by the NDP would change comparatively little.

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