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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he knows the same young voters who propelled him to office are frustrated, but that he will double down on the work he's been doing.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (6 children)

“We’ve got a great team of amazing people who are putting forward the kinds of solutions that Canadians need, whether it’s on housing, whether it’s on paying for groceries, whether it’s on building strong careers for the future, fighting climate change, reconciliation,” Trudeau said.

Have their ideas gotten any farther than an email or meeting? I haven’t seen any action. If that were my job I’d have been fired long before 8 years. I wouldn’t have the balls to ask for a 4 year extension.

Housing? Immigration is set to increase the population orders of magnitude more than housing starts. Nothing has changed regarding corporate landlords scooping everything up. Most MPs have a lucrative side gig renting out homes at inflated, crippling rates.

Grocery prices? What have we done? Invited Galen Weston to come to a committee and shrug? They’re still more expensive and in smaller packages.

Strong careers? Salaries have come nowhere near increases caused by inflation. A small number of unions have negotiated something decent, but the government sure doesn’t get any credit for that.

Climate change? The country is on fire annually and the last thing you did was buy Alberta a pipeline nobody can use. The time for action was 30 years ago. You were in power for the last 8 and did nothing.

Reconciliation? You made a holiday for government workers and then went surfing.

The only thing the Liberals have they can use is “we’re not the CPC”, which is often enough, but pretty flimsy when your track record of the last 8 years is part of the next election.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Housing - They put 82 billion dollars towards building new homes. It's a process that takes years, if not decades. Even though, housing is generally, something that should be handled at the municipal/provincial level. I also love the idea of looking into the war time housing measures to mass produce houses.

Groceries - Inflation and a war in the bread basket of Europe have caused an issue everywhere. I'm not entirely sure I want the government mandating prices... Have we seen a plausible alternative from any of the other parties?

Climate change - Did you not see the whole "only EVs by 2030" pitch? Or the carbon tax scheme that has Polievre absolutely freaking out?

The other big things that are in progress (again, government shit, especially coming out of a global pandemic, takes time) and most impress me are:

National $10 a day daycare. That is an absolute game changer, especially for our lowest earners and young families. (Talk to any parent about how crazy expensive day care is. For a parent on minimum wage it makes almost no sense to work.)

Dental care for low income folks. Teeth are super important and I've had low earning friends have serious trouble because they couldn't afford check ups which caused real problems down the road.

And of course, I would say that rolling out the covid relief plan in a coherent targeted way was nothing short of impressive. Compare that to our southern neighbours who gave less money and poorly targeted, a colossal waste of money.

Are things perfect? No! Could they be better? Absolutely. But to say they have nothing other than "we're not the CPC" seems disingenuous, poorly informed or a poor grasp of how politics and reality work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

$10/day daycare will be a game changer, once there are enough spots. There are waitlists for the waitlists, where I live.

Not saying that's the Fed's fault. Just that in some places, lots of people aren't seeing the benefit yet. And the angry representative of the fields south of Ottawa will happily tell us it's due to a lack of federal planning.

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