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2013: The year of the democracy coalition

After transforming the country in the post-war years into a modest social democracy without ever coming to power, the NDP’s false dream of actually coming to power threatens to wipe out its legacy. If that isn’t irony, I don’t know what would qualify.

BY Murray Dobbin

February 2, 2013

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