TORONTO—It is the job of the columnist to pull a bunch of disparate stories together and find the common theme that links them all. If you’re feeling particularly ambitious, you could even try and create an entire grand narrative out of all the various little data points.

I don’t think the recent wave of elections and referendums in this country has much of a grand unifying theme. The results of the provincial elections in British Columbia and Quebec, the Alberta referendum questions, and the recent Ontario municipal elections were all about very different things. Trying to come up with a meta-narrative seems a bit of a stretch.

Well, okay. With maybe one exception.

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I’m going to set the Ontario municipal elections aside. Municipal elections are about local issues, often have low turnout, and don’t tell us much about the broader picture. But if we look at British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec, and even the current sustained high approval rating for Prime Minister Mark Carney and his Liberal government, I think we do start to see the outlines of a kind of........

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