At a policy level, what the two leading parties in this election propose isnt all that different: lower income taxes, a mishmash of credits and subsidies for parents and homeowners, and at least four more years of deficits. With either option, were not looking at dramatically different Canadas.

When you run on sanctimony, govern on arrogance and expect perfection, you find yourself in an awful quandary when you fall short of your own standards.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh could, theoretically, harness the desire for change that the Liberals left unfulfilled because they used the same sort of Harper-style governing tactics during their tenure. If only the NDP could figure out what it's doing.

In another universe, with a different electoral map, Trudeau would be harping on Quebec's secularism law at every opportunity, with every minister on board, and with the fury this sort of state-sponsored intolerance demands.

This is a government so convinced of its own moral virtue that it can rationalize trading text messages with a criminally charged organization over a pressure campaign on the attorney general.

If these U.S. congresswomen can't appreciate how Great America Is Again, they should go somewhere they can express their dissent freely, like Beijing.

In its first year in office, Ontario's Progressive Conservative government led by Doug Ford has brought back many of the same gross-looking antics as the previous Liberal government, with a spread of malicious-seeming cutbacks to boot.