Task completed

It may not hold the attention of the chattering class like a never-ending series of meetings between two party leaders engaged in a game of chicken. But at least one federal party has actually been making efforts to actually talk to people outside the Ottawa bubble - and the NDP has released the reports from its two economic task forces.

Mind you, the results are consistent enough with the NDP's policy direction that they won't come as much surprise. But they surely do far more to capture some of the genuine concerns of Canadians than the Harper/Ignatieff showdown about nothing.