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Can you guess the political parties' campaign songs?

With the release of Blue Rodeo's protest song, Stealin' All My Dreams, our Because News panel takes a look at the music behind the politics.
Blue Rodeo released the song 'Stealin' All My Dreams' to protest the Harper government. (Blue Rodeo/YouTube)

With the release of Blue Rodeo's new protest song, Stealin' All My Dreams, our Because News panel took a look at the music behind the politics.

Capitalist folk songs are hard to come by.- Barbara Kay

In Blue Rodeo's release, the band accuses the Harper government of "stealin' all their dreams" with not-so-subtle lyrics.

"Your pipeline will spill its disease

You shut down all the research libraries

And you muzzled all the white coats in your laboratories

Then you set your sites on the CBC."

"The are scurrilous slanders against him — stealing dreams," joked Kay.

"I don't know, Barbara, if you've been as close attention as I have to Drake and Meek Mill but … you can't just not show up to the fight," said Howell.

"If Harper does not release his own song with better rhymes, I think he's going to be in trouble."

Kay isn't waiting up for the response.

"Capitalist folk songs are hard to come by," she quipped.

Who is grooving to what on this campaign trail

Columnist Barbara Kay, broadcaster Tom Howell and comedian Ashley Botting were quizzed on which party is using which song as a soundtrack.

The Conservative Party chose the song Better Now by Collective Soul — a Georgia-based band that kind of looks and sounds like Nickleback.

"I think they should have chosen the Abba song Money, Money Money," said Kay.

The Liberal party has been using The Veldt by Ontario's deadmau5.

"I was going to guess Stuck in the Middle With You," said Ashley Botting.

The NDP chose We're All In This Together from the Montreal-based Sam Roberts Band. But Tom Howell wasn't buying it and belted out an alternate tune - Abba's I Have A Dream. "I have a dream, it's not seeming plausible anymore!" 

Because News has officially chosen our own theme song for this election — the longest campaign in Canadian history.