I had actually been prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt, but Justin Trudeau quickly demonstrated to me that he was an airhead. His shameful betrayal of his promise to eliminate our archaic, disenfanchising "First-Past-the-Post" electoral system was unforgiveable. His response to global warming was merely rhetoric. His foreign policy was abominably stupid. He seems to think the massive explosion of tent cities across the country is the new normal. Obviously, the Conservatives had been worse. The Conservatives would have been worse if they'd held power. (Especially in response to the COVID pandemic.) And, if Canadians demonstrate their "Shit-For-Brains" powers in the next election, the Conservatives WILL be worse than the Liberals.
Trudeau has a nice pension now. Will he go back to teaching drama classes at a highschool? I suspect he'll write a book. All of the people being considered for Liberal Party leader are either blood-stained or the usual corporate fuck-faces.
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I did like some of his work with First Nations and this'll be missed as the Canadian government returns to a fully hostile relations with Indigenous governments (instead of it's semi-hostile relations it enjoys now with JT). But First Nations are used to a hostile federal government. We won't like it, but we'll prepare well.
But otherwise, Trudeau —and his cabinet — was out of touch with average Canadians on immigration, inflation, and housing. Had Trudeau kept immigration at the same rate as when he entered into governance; had he acted to tax profits to keep inflation steady; had he bothered to tax profits on housing sales, then his government would probably still be in power. Any one of those — because they're all interconnected — would've allowed him another term or two in office. But he didn't, and so he's out now.
And it'll probably be PP in power soon then with the government falling at the first opportunity with the Liberals (and NDP) being trounced. Not that it'll make a difference, really. PP will be more mean spirited than Trudeau, but as ol' Tommy Douglas put it: Liberal, Tory, same ol' story.
And PP being himself will probably quickly wear out his own welcome within a term or two and get trounced in the election after that. Hopefully by then either the Liberals or the NDP will finally have settled their own leadership questions.
Troy,
I did a post a little while back admitting that JT and his Liberals did accomplish something on their clean water for First Nations promise. As far as I could make out from the mainstream and other sources, it was more than a half-assed effort. Much better than anything the 21st Century Conservative Party would have done.
The electoral viability of the Conservatives is an indictment of our political culture. However stupid the Liberals are, the Conservatives are generally at least twice as bad. If the NDP had killed as many Canadians as federal and provincial right-wing parties have, they'd probably have been made illegal. Imagine if by some fluke the NDP got in power federally and it was found that a veteran who lost his leg in Afghanistan had to provide Veterans' Affairs with yearly confirmation that it hadn't grown back!
Along with the other excellent policies you suggested could have been tried, I would add that if the feds had simply BUILT houses it would also have had a good impact.
But the genius Paul Martin eliminated the federal housing department way back in the nineties.
When will zombie neoliberalism finally collapse??
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