As the federal Liberal caucus retreats to Nanaimo to grapple with its miserable poll numbers, the Conservatives and NDP battle it out for the votes of “common sense Canadians.” They’re the non-ideological, lower-middle-class and working-class people who feel the current government has given them a raw deal.  Inflation is up, unemployment is up, crime is up, housing is unaffordable, and they are pissed off. They’re the voters the late NDP leader Ed Broadbent called “ordinary Canadians,” the people Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre rebrands as “extraordinary,” and they are the new Holy Grail of Canadian politics.