"It’s hard not to feel disappointed in your government when every day there is a new scandal." I agree, applies today more than ever.
I see that Trudeau said that about the Conservatives in 2013.
All the "scandals" about the Liberals since 2015 have basically been trumped-up BS or nothingburgers, or optics issues that have no effect on governing.
One ironic thing is that a few weeks before Jody Wilson-Raybould was let go as Justice Minister,
the Conservatives and NDP were both saying she should be fired.
And she frankly should have been let go far earlier. Some guy was languishing in jail because some paperwork was sitting on her desk for months (
"A tale of enormous suffering" - Halifax Examiner ). And that was the root issue of the SNC Lavalin controversy --
she never bothered to send a memo to the PM's office or Clerk of the Privy Council, to explain what she had decided.
Then when she was let go, she turned into a BS controversy because she lost her "dream job", by complaining about how she was repeatedly asked about the issue... duh yeah, because you didn't simply send a memo to formally state your decision.
"Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his pledge to balance the federal books in four years is cast in stone." Dec 2015, so don't blame covid, they never even got close.
Yeah, he shouldn't have said that, because it's hard to predict the future.
But Trump ripping-up NAFTA was a problem.
Anyway, the Liberals and Democrats are factually just better at managing the economy than the Conservatives and Republicans.
Canada’s fiscal hawks in a predictable lather over Liberal deficit spending
"Canada still has the lowest debt-to-GDP and deficit-to-GDP ratio in the G7, and both figures are now on the decline in the wake of the COVID pandemic. As University of British Columbia economist Kevin Milligan tweeted, this “is a good indication that there will not be a need for tax increases to afford future public debt payments. In other words, 'fiscal crisis' lol no.”
And as Milligan
noted, the cost of servicing Canada’s debt is likely to settle in around 1.5 to 1.6 per cent of GDP, which is
lower than almost any point since the 1960s and only marginally higher than historical lows. “Again, for anyone looking for signs of an incipient fiscal crisis....uh, no.”"
“The 2015 election will be the last federal election using first-past-the-post.” Electoral reform, another broken promise.
This is one of those things that tricks people who don't follow the issue. I didn't know the details until a few years ago, because I wasn't paying attention to it, since it was just theoretical.
The issue was that the parties couldn't agree on what change to make. The NDP wants proportional representation, and that sounded good to me at first, but when you look into it, you find out that in other countries, what happens is that the parties get split into a lot of small parties... including crackpot parties.
And then election campaigns lose some meaning, because you don't know what you're voting for. The parties can run on a platform, but they can't implement it, because they have to give concessions to the parties in order to govern.
I think Ranked Ballot would be a good compromise, but that would probably help the Liberal Party, since they're in between the Conservatives and NDP... so if the Liberals did implement that, other parties would just say that they rigged the election.
Even if the Liberals and NDP agreed on a change, then the Conservatives would say it was rigged.
The Cons have polluted the political discourse.
"Trudeau called out for missing 'crystal clear' business case for LNG exports." No business case for LNG? When Europe is starving for cheap energy?
I only vaguely remembered this issue, but just Googling this brings up some answers:
why lng from canada is impractical - Google Suche
Mainly this:
Why Canadian Liquefied Natural Gas Is Not the Answer for the European Union’s Short-Term Energy Needs
- "Due to climate commitments and energy security concerns, Europe is accelerating its plans to reduce gas use by ramping up energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy sources. While there may be demand for some fossil fuels, markets like Norway are more logical to fill immediate needs.
- This results in a fundamental mismatch with Canadian supply opportunities. Canada cannot ramp up supply before 2025, while Europe’s energy needs will largely be resolved by that time."
So subsidizing infrastructure for LNG exports would be a waste of taxpayer money.
"Trans Mountain pipeline construction costs balloon again — this time to $30.9 Billion". We bought a pipeline.
Yeah, they shouldn't have bought it. That's still better than what the Conservatives would have done on it.
I can go on all day with this Liberal ineptitude, but at this point it just makes sense to sit back and let the Liberals self-destruct themselves so not going to spend anymore time on it. Should just add their green and so-called climate agenda is only making Canadians poorer and worse off, to think that taxing a tiny % of the world population for so called carbon use is actually going to have an impact on global emmissions?
A lot of the things people criticize the federal Liberals for are actually under the jurisdiction of the provincial or municipal governments.
For example, until a couple of years ago, real estate prices were stagnant or even declining in some areas, like Atlantic Canada. So a Canada-wide foreign buyer's ban would have been too heavy-handed, and would have made it harder to recruit people to rural areas (like doctors). Individual provinces should have done that.
But the Libs have at least implemented a foreign buyer ban after the provinces didn't act.
Also, the EU is even more progressive than Canada to fight climate change. And in the US, they recently made a lot of investments on that too. Steps need to be taken to fight climate change.
And this certainly isn't ineptitude:
- They lifted over a million people out of poverty by 2020:
Fact check: Did a Liberal tax cut help reduce poverty rates?
- They cut income taxes
- They cut federal small business taxes from 11% to 9%. For a lot of us, that's quite a bit.
- Canada's unemployment is at a record low
- $10/day daycare
- They dealt with Trump and his erratic behaviour, and renegotiated a new NAFTA
And that's just a small number of things. No government is perfect. But due to consumption of twisted right-wing media, your view is as if it's the worst-run government in the world.
Also, are you at least 31 years old? You mentioned worst PM in your lifetime, which is quite obviously not true:
- Brian Mulroney accepted cash in envelopes from a lobbyist, and even tried to steal the furniture from the PM's residence, lol
- And this was Harper:
Stephen Harper and the Theo-cons | The Walrus
Like I said, right-wing talking points about economic and political issues can generally be ripped apart with the truth.
