Dental care gives the NDP a reason to smile — no matter what happens in the next election

For all anyone knows, this might be as good as it gets for Jagmeet Singh’s NDP. But would that be so bad?

The NDP is certainly in a celebratory mood. On Wednesday, the day after the federal budget, the party’s MPs staged a mini-pep rally for the television cameras to celebrate their influence on the document. Singh announced an eight-city “post-budget tour” to “talk to Canadians about how the NDP delivered results that put money back in their pockets.”

Some of the victories New Democrats are claiming for themselves are at least open to debate. Left to its own devices, the Liberal government might have