I think some Keynesian economics could work, or at least won't bankrupt Canada. Or at least what Mulcair would do won't be any better or worse than Trudeau in that area. Though the PoD of a shorter election and so a centrist, balanced budget NDP government would be interesting. I made some alternate election results for an NDP win a while ago. Here they are:
Tom Mulcair-NDP: 137+42 36.81%
Stephen Harper-Conservative: 135-24 31.39%
Justin Trudeau-Liberal: 65+29 25.77%
Elizabeth May-Green: 1-1 3.45%
Giles Duceppe-Bloc Quebecois: 0-2 2.46%
The original PoDs was no niqab controversy and no balanced budget controversy. However a shorter election could produce a similar result; Liberal gains but not enough to get out of third-place and a very close result in terms of seats but a comfortable NDP victory in the popular vote. I used
this. What would be the impact of such a result?