Canadian Political stereotypes

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You have to ask yourself a question or two about your life's course when you find yourself at the Estonian Hall in east end Toronto at ten on a Sunday morning, listening to a troika of New Democrat policy wonks introduce their party's platform.

Still, whatever ignorant NDP stereotypes I might have carried with me into the room (beefy union types interacting uneasily with former Marxists and 60s refugees) were quickly belied. The NDP is running a razor-sharp campaign. The wi-fi works, the coffee's hot, the food's pretty good and the three briefers – Brian Topp, a former deputy chief of staff to Roy Romanow, Sheila Block, research director for the Ontario Federation of Labour, and Thomas Mulcair, the NDP member for Outrement – are smart, occasionally funny on a dry subject and pragmatic.

The article had nothing to say aboat Poulon-carrying, toque-wearing politicians commuting to work on their snowmobiles after a rousing breakfast of back bacon, Moulson, poutine, and butter tarts, eh?

The article had nothing to say aboat Poulon-carrying, toque-wearing politicians commuting to work on their snowmobiles after a rousing breakfast of back bacon, Moulson, poutine, and butter tarts, eh?