It has only been a little over six weeks now since Justin Trudeau became our country’s 42nd prime minister.
Canada, as a nation, is experiencing what the word ‘landslide’ means and we are feeling it through the actions of a ‘can-do’ government that seems to be delivering on its campaign promises.
Seems to being the operative phrasing here.
Six weeks and he has already ordered our generals to pull out of bombing missions in Syria, fast-tracked the refugee program to admit 10,000 people, eliminated visa restrictions on Mexican immigrants, green-lit the process to begin the legalization of marijuana, and last week he represented our country on the global stage at the climate change summit in Paris, vowing to ensure that Canada does its part to reduce its own greenhouse emissions by 30 per cent (or more) before 2030 – levels set previously by the defeated Harper administration.
Honestly, I did not vote for him but I have to hand it to the Liberals anyways; they may have found their answer to the NDP’s Jack Layton in the man the Conservatives were attacking during the election as ‘just not old enough’.
Trudeau has the charisma, and he has the panache.
If Canada can survive four years with this rock star of a prime minister, we won’t recognize our country from how it used to look back when Stevie was still in charge.
But that’s only if he can stop smirking at the camera and dancing around subjects during Question and Answer periods in the House of Commons, or backpedalling on issues important to his constituents.
He should stop refusing to adjust his position on key points, especially in light of current global sentiments.
If he can manage it, Trudeau will change our country into something not even the rest of the world will recognize.
I, personally, have mixed feelings.
Some people, former American Vice President Al Gore among them, were ecstatic at Trudeau’s election and even mentioned how great our national reputation would be on the global front again, now that we have a leader focused on real climate change results.
I didn’t think that Stevie did such a terrible job running our country with his protectionist and isolationist tactics.
I would have liked more government transparency, but that is water under the bridge now, isn’t it?
Aren’t we that member of NATO who comes armed to conflicts with a mop or a broom?
Does Canada not already have one of the lowest carbon footprints?
The election is over and the Conservative Party was annihilated.
No amount of crying or whining is going to change that fact so it is best to pull up our socks and work with what we’ve got.
We have bigger issues to wrangle with.
Instead of focusing on how much this or that policy is going to cost us down the road, we should be more worried about legislation that is being foisted on us without so much as a how-do-you-do.
In a real democracy, voices get heard.
