Well, if the NDP is attached to diversity-based tribalism (which is apparently very fashionable in post-national Canada) I guess it's better than the mentality of those who think that Mr. Singh is a progressive merely because of his religion and/or race. He apparently wants to bury the social contract, at least where pensions are concerned. Okay, he's light on policy according to Wente, but does promoting an idea that would have made Mrs. Thatcher blush count as being progressive? I'm a bit tired of the "rainbow coalition" assumptions made by some and counter by asking whether the fact that the co-leader of Germany's ultra right-wing AfD is an out lesbian thereby render her and her party's policies progressive?