08-12-2016 03:26 PM
Canada's Prime Minister Junior Trudeau's first report card, Since being elected:
1) From his swearing-in on Nov. 4, 2015 to Feb 12, 2016, the Trudeau government distributed 208 cheques worth a combined $5.3 billion.
But only $997 million was for projects inside the country.
The rest — $4.3 billion — will be spent outside Canada on everything from aid for refugees to helping poor countries fight climate change.
2) Hired 2 nannies paid for by the taxpayer.
3) He and his family flew to the Caribbean for a 10 day winter vacation on a Department of National Defence Challenger jet, which cost about $10,000 per flying hour to operate but reimbursed the Canadian taxpayer only the cost of an economy air fare.
Yet he could still afford to pay $2,500 US a night to stay in a 3,400-square-foot villa on the Island of Nevis.
4) He stopped the enforcement of the First Nations Financial Transparency Act (FNFTA) and restored full funding without any requirement of accountability.
Achieved this by quietly eliminating the law created by parliament demanding First Nations report on funding spending.
In addition, has appointed 5 new commissioners with 50 million to investigate why aboriginal women are disappearing ??
5) He reinstated the Mandatory Long Form Census and the $500 fine or up to three months in prison for refusing to fill out the survey or providing false information.
6) In the rush to bring in the first phase of 25,000 refugees the government back in November had our military vacate their housing on 7 military bases and are still not allowed back.
The reason? There is the possibility of more refugees moving into base housing as complaints of hotel accommodations become more frequent.
Also there will be another influx of 25,000 more refugees by the end of 2016, to bring the total to 50,000.
7) His "secretive Board of Internal Economy" just gave all MP's a 20% increase in office expenses which will add an additional $57,690 for a new office budget total of $346,140 per MP and an additional $193,029 for a new office budget total of $1,158,117 for the Speaker.
😎 He began discussions on decreasing the MP's workweek by 20% by dropping the Friday sitting of Parliament.
The reason? To make Parliament a more family-friendly workplace.
9) He paid $32.9-million (U.S.) to maintain Canada's membership in the F-35 buyer's pool, despite his election promise to exclude the aircraft when selecting this countries next warplane.
So how does he answer to that? He creates a new secretive government committee tasked with overseeing defence purchases.
10) He scrapped legislation introduced last year that allowed Canadians who held dual nationalities to be stripped of their Canadian citizenship if they were found guilty of terrorism, treason or spying offences.
The first person that will benefit from this is Zakaria Amara the mastermind of the plot to bomb downtown Toronto in an effort to terrorize Canadians and cripple the economy.
He will no longer be deported nor have his Canadian citizenship revoked.
11. In July 2016, he has successfully achieve the loss of 35,000
Canadian Jobs across Canada while our southern border friends have an increase of over 250,000 new jobs.
(the US job figure is not entirely correct . . . many of those jobs were the Democratic Party hiring "paid actors" @ $10 an hour to harass GOP rallies, convention, etc. These also include paid Democratic Party employees. [Hillary's slaves !!] )
Now aren't we all glad we stopped Harper.
Way to go junior
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08-12-2016 06:36 PM
The spin rivals Donald Trump.
08-12-2016 06:47 PM
"Now aren't we all glad we stopped Harper."
Yes, we sure are!
08-12-2016 10:57 PM
@gauge33 wrote:
1) From his swearing-in on Nov. 4, 2015 to Feb 12, 2016, the Trudeau government distributed 208 cheques worth a combined $5.3 billion.
5) He reinstated the Mandatory Long Form Census and the $500 fine or up to three months in prison for refusing to fill out the survey or providing false information.
9) He paid $32.9-million (U.S.) to maintain Canada's membership in the F-35 buyer's pool, despite his election promise to exclude the aircraft when selecting this countries next warplane.
Now aren't we all glad we stopped Harper.
1) I'm really impressed that government spending was slashed to only $5.3 billion -- or does your source figure that skipping over the other 70 billion of government spending in that time period adds accuracy.
5) Great. Either we have a proper census, or have none at all. Not an unreliable Harper-style census.
9). From the Globe and Mail (Feb 24):
Leaving the Joint Strike Fighter program would hurt Canadian business because companies would no longer be able to bid on contracts to supply parts and software for the plane.
Canadian companies have won more than $750-million in contracts related to the F-35 because Canada has been a partner in the program for decades. Should the Liberals exit the program, Canadian firms contracts will wind down and they will not be eligible to bid on further work.
One procurement expert working for the federal government, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said it's unclear whether Ottawa could successfully defend against legal action should it bar jet maker Lockheed Martin and its F-35 plane from a competition. "They will have to decide whether they want to run a competition or face a lawsuit.... The easiest option for a variety of reasons is to run a competition and run it fairly."
As for Harper: The last election was primarily people voting for the anybody-but-Harper party. Trudeau and the Liberals got the benefit. At this point Trudeau is still a better choice than a recycled Harper.
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Current score: 18 broken promises, 34 promises achieved, 62 promises underway.
08-13-2016 09:52 AM
I assume when you say "we" you mean Mary and you, as 60.5% of the vote went to other parties and over half of that to Stevie.
08-13-2016 11:07 AM
When I use the word "we", I mean 68% of all Canadian voters who voted against Harper and his government.
PS - The election is over, has been over for ten months. There is no need to start threads on a regular basis trying to change the results. Your guy is done, soon gone. His replacement - if one is ever chosen - will face a difficult time gaining credibility for the Party.
The new government has made some mistakes and will make more in the years to come. However, on a final analysis, there is no other choice. Even strong long time supporters of the NDP are slowly moving that way and the trend will continue unless they can find another Jack Layton..
08-13-2016 04:11 PM
68% Not that far off the 60.5% of all Canadian voters that voted against Trudeau..
08-13-2016 04:40 PM
You do not seem to get it.
Canadians voted against Harper, very few voted against Trudeau.
Many may have voted for representatives of other parties but it was not a anti-Trudeau vote.
08-13-2016 05:06 PM
"very few voted against Trudeau"
Wrong, many voted for anyone else remembering Pierre Elliot Trudeau!.
"Canadians voted against Harper"
Hard to quantify considering 60.5% voted for anyone except a liberal.
08-13-2016 10:06 PM
Face it, it was time for a changing of the guard.
If the Liberals didn't completely dominate in the Northern and Atlantic Provinces with the NDP sinking into Election oblivion, it might have been a closer race.
The Liberals might not have won a Majority Government.
But the Liberals did win convincingly and Stephen Harper has no one to blame but himself and his one man show.....
08-13-2016 11:26 PM
@gauge33 wrote:"very few voted against Trudeau"
Wrong, many voted for anyone else remembering Pierre Elliot Trudeau!.
"Canadians voted against Harper"
Hard to quantify considering 60.5% voted for anyone except a liberal.
Speaking as farm boy: Chicken manure.
Those folk with memories of Pierre Elliot Trudeau as prime minister are old voters (like myself). And there were a lot of first time voters out for the last election. Voter turnout was the highest in 20 years at 68.3% (versus 61.1% for 2011). The age groups with biggest jump in voting participation between 2011 and 2015 were the under 45 groups (whereas the over 55 crowd had the usual turnout numbers).
The folks who were anti-Trudeau in 2015 wouldn't have voted Liberal in the first place. So it made no difference to the results. Next election is a different matter.
anti-Harper votes in 2015 went to the other parties, not just the Liberals.
Harper moulded his party into a centralized party with him in charge. So while the good points were all funneled up to his benefit -- so were the bad ones, and mishandling those spelled his doom. He became the focus point for discontent with the federal government -- with a majority government you can't spread the blame to the opposing parties. That will also be Justin's biggest challenge -- he's got a majority. The next election will see if he handled his majority better than Harper did with his.
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What might the next elections yield (federal/provincial)?
http://www.threehundredeight.com
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08-16-2016 01:38 PM
Trudeau metre
18 broken promises already, that's a good start to a bad record and what will the tally be in 3 more years of his election promises.
08-16-2016 04:46 PM
08-16-2016 05:10 PM
I like their list of "broken" promises.
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Welcome 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2015.
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So they were a few weeks late to get all 25,000 in. I do not see that as a "broken" promise.
What would the Harper government have done? NOTHING, absolutely nothing..
08-16-2016 11:41 PM
08-18-2016 12:44 PM
Another broken promise which was to be fiscally responsible. Limousinegate.
Not even a year in government and the sense of Liberal entitlement and cronyism is on full display. The most recent scandal concerns Health Minister Jane Philpott who charged taxpayers thousands of dollars for a limo service owned by one of her campaign operatives. She’s finally admitting it was “inappropriate,” but still won’t pay it back. It should have never happened in the first place. This won’t be the last scandal because it’s typical Liberal behavior: they’re only in it for themselves and their friends. Whether it’s limos, fancy junkets, lavish spending or a ballooning lobbyist registry, the Limousine Liberals can’t control their spending habit.
They could be spending these precious dollars on desperately needed youth employment programs or health care for our veterans. But instead…a Liberal Minister and her thousand-dollar limousine ride.
08-18-2016 01:15 PM
I think I understand your problem and I have a solution for you.
In the next federal election in 2019, vote for the Conservative candidate in your riding.
Problem solved!
08-18-2016 02:02 PM
Aw Pierre you're feeling this one, try to stay on subject Limogate!
08-23-2016 01:03 PM
You sound like a sore loser Gauge.
08-23-2016 01:49 PM
Taxpayers have Les .................................................................
........................................ with these examples of Liberal entitlement and cronyism.
The federal Conservatives say Environment Minister Catherine McKenna needs to repay money paid to a photographer during a climate change conference in Paris last year.
Documents obtained under the Access to Information Act and made available to The Canadian Press by the Conservatives indicate McKenna's department paid a French photojournalist nearly $11,000 to take pictures of the minister and her staff during the COP21 conference.
And another .................
Health Minister Jane Philpott said she would repay $520 billed to taxpayers to access Air Canada lounges in North America and Europe.
Last week, Philpott also said she would repay $3,700 that was spent on car services, along with any other expenses deemed inappropriate by her department.