The shape of the fall debate is coming into focus. One party will speak to people who weren't terribly badly inconvenienced by the shut down, promising to use other people's money to remake Canada in a way they describe as fairer and greener. Other parties, speaking for

people who paid a terrible price in the shutdown, will talk primarily about recovering jobs, business income, schooling and normalcy.

It will be a class-based debate as much as anything, with the protected classes - those with protected jobs and income streams - dreaming of dreamy futures - and the at risk classes reaching for security.