Analysis: What will Canada's second Trudeau era leave behind?
Analysis: What will Canada's second Trudeau era leave behind?
Once the constant, repetitive, endless attack ads end and the CPC inevitably fucks something up people will stsrt to wonder what they hated so much about him.
Except Alberta and those too far gone, of course.
I think this government will be remembered as having massively lost the communication war in all fronts.
Carbon tax is objectively a great policy, but has been smeared. Electoral reform would gave been a disaster with no two parties agreeing (I want electoral reform, but one party unilaterally doing so would in effect doom our democracy, and every single interest group in the country wanted him to open the constitution to enshrine their cause as a right).
On housing and the economy I’m not impressed, but he got us through renegotiating NAFTA and a slew of other treaties during Trumos first term that frankly none of the other parties could have done.
Same with the pandemic, my wife and I watched and listened to his regular updates, Canada got safe and effective vaccines, and we evidenced economic collapse and a recession. But you never hear about the good from that period, it’s all scandal and “freedom” from the press.
Post Covid they’ve really floundered and we’ve seen all of our media shift further right, institutions like The Glove and Mail is all opinion and Toronto Star got purchase and taken private, firing their editors who refused to follow suit.
In a way Trudeau was always doomed, but even then he has both over played his hand while not taking enough action.
I’ll remember this party with mixed feelings, I push to not forget the good, but I can’t deny at this stage they’re failing.
To say I'm not impressed with housing is a real understatement
Housing in Canada is just insanely unaffordable. I have a salary well over twice the average here in Canada and I can barely afford the 450sqft apartment I'm living in.
You should not have to spend more than 25-30% of your income on housing, but even withy income I spend a good 50%, it's insane
With that in mind its very understandable to see people in their 60's still living with roommates while having two jobs because they simply can't afford to live here
The fear and hate messaging that's pushed by the right all over the world is really powerful and hard to combat. Its sad seeing it.
A lack of electoral reform and, unfortunately, an incredibly strong CPC.
I don't think the CPC as a party is strong per se. A baboon could be the leader of the CPC and they'd be polling about the same, maybe even better. People just hate the Liberals that much. And when pocketbooks get tight, that's the way it goes. Though, whether the CPC actually has the ability to govern and solve the economic problems people want solved, is another question.