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When Trudeau came in, it was after a few governments led by Stephen Haper and the conservatives. It was a bleak time for Canada. When Justin Trudeau came, he was a huge ray of hope, plus he carries the Trudeau name. He was gong to be a progressive prime minister and leader of the Liberal party and promised a lot of changes that would make the middle class life so much easier.
But many problems started to grow in Canada and blew out of porportion. Like the housing crisis, or well established alomost monopolistic companies gouging Canadians on essential services and goods like telecom and groceries. This became worst after the pandemic. And people felt Trudeau's Liberals did too little, too late.
The middle class suffered a lot while richer Canadians and Canadian corporations thrived by keeping their gouging practices.
That's what I heard too: the Liberals did nothing or not much. So, effectively it'll be another... 4 years of liberal rule? Is everybody banking on this new dude, Mark Carney to be different?
i expect him to be moderately different. Hes already made some changes (some of which i disagree with, such as removing the carbon tax.)
Hopefully he seeks to distinguish himself, and gets rid of FPTP.
If he actually gets rid of FPTP Mark would, in my opinion, go down in history as the most significant PM since John A. Macdonald.
Since Tommy Douglas maybe? Universal Healthcare? That one time we had an NDP government?
This sounds earily similar to other countries. The one time a real left-leaning government comes into power for a term, they make some good, long-lasting changes for the benefit of the common man, and are promptly voted out.
I know there's a lot of folks you could list there that did great things for our country, but in my personal opinion changing how we elect our representatives is so fundamental to the functioning of the country not even universal health care compares.
Not saying I'd trade PR for healthcare though, in case someone were to propose that Faustian deal.
Well I think he's certainly better than freakin' John A. MacDonald in my opinion.
I don't disagree with you on MacDonald's track record. But in terms of significance to the country it's hard to deny his influence. The country wouldn't look anywhere like it does today, for example.
But sure, my point remains the same: If Carney actually passes voting reform it would propel him to one of the most significant PMs in the entire country's history.