They should hire you. And it’s a strategy they could apply more broadly. Press conference in Edmonton at the site of the hospital that the UCP just canceled. Hit up Saskatchewan and really hammer Moe on his attacks on Education.
All the basic social infrastructure that the provinces are responsible for that they have spent the last twenty years ignoring and degrading.
Our current crop of feckless premieres provides so much scope for the Federal government to position itself as the ally of the voters against the provincial governments. The responsible big brother who’ll provide oversight and push for accountability.
They’ve got a year. And if they spend every week of it visibly on the warpath on behalf of voters they could actually turn this around.
But the next issue that the Trudeau government shows strategic, adversarial fight on will be their first. I sometimes think Trudeau has never been able to move beyond his first “sunny ways” slogan. If he can’t accomplish something with polite cooperation he just gives up.
In all fairness, Trudeau has achieved a lot with polite cooperation. Daycare, NAFTA 2.0, massive improvement in clean drinking water on reserves, child benefits, AOS, CPP, Covid management, etc. Most of these successes were the result of hard work, compromising and staying power.
However, in today’s environment it seems that voters don’t care about actual results, but want to see and feel that you care about their concerns. You don’t get any credits for the quality of your plan or whether you have plan at all, all that is required is giving people the feeling that you care.
It would appear that a large part of the public prefers politicians that are loud and there is zero consideration (or perhaps a penalty) for anything that resembles a plan. It is like getting your medical advice from Joe Rogan.
If a government enacts a policy, but no one notices, does it really exist?
Communication is not a dirty word. There’s no bonus points for running the government silently. I guarantee that you can not name a single notable politician or successful leader in history who wasn’t a great communicator. That’s the job.
If the government is doing good things, they SHOULD be loud about. Why wouldn’t they? What possible reason is there not to advertise their success?
Which, of course, is why there’s automatic suspicion of quiet governments. If there’s only upside to trumpeting your successes, silence doesn’t indicate anything good.
It is so obvious. Attacking the conservative premiers is the logical next step. The federal Liberals have been laying the ground work (health, housing, daycare and a few other areas). Now, they can say, we have done our part, the provinces are failing you. The premiers are sabotaging your well being. And why is this so obvious, because it is mostly true.
I understand the recommendation of ignoring the carbon tax, but I think that is wrong. Also here is provincial attack possible. Call out the tricks of adding provincial taxes at the same time as the carbon tax increases. Challenge them to come up with a provincial variant. Highlight the rebate, where is the rebate for the provincial fuel tax increase?
However, ignoring Poilievre would be perfect. Just say, Poilievre has no plan, he is not worthy of a response, we are busy with our plan.
On the carbon tax, my heart agrees with you. But my head thinks we’ve reached a point where whoever ends in charge gets to define environmental policy, but environmental policy isn’t going to define who ends up in charge.
There's no energy left in the Liberal party. This is a great idea for the party in theory, but they seem to be operating on limiting downside over maximizing and materializing on the upside.
At this point, I'm questioning if they're staying completely out of commenting on provincial Conservative failures because they don't think it will improve their fortunes anyways *and* it might serve to hurt their ideological counterparts in the Alberta NDP / Ontario Liberals to be linked with them.
They should hire you. And it’s a strategy they could apply more broadly. Press conference in Edmonton at the site of the hospital that the UCP just canceled. Hit up Saskatchewan and really hammer Moe on his attacks on Education.
All the basic social infrastructure that the provinces are responsible for that they have spent the last twenty years ignoring and degrading.
Our current crop of feckless premieres provides so much scope for the Federal government to position itself as the ally of the voters against the provincial governments. The responsible big brother who’ll provide oversight and push for accountability.
They’ve got a year. And if they spend every week of it visibly on the warpath on behalf of voters they could actually turn this around.
But the next issue that the Trudeau government shows strategic, adversarial fight on will be their first. I sometimes think Trudeau has never been able to move beyond his first “sunny ways” slogan. If he can’t accomplish something with polite cooperation he just gives up.
In all fairness, Trudeau has achieved a lot with polite cooperation. Daycare, NAFTA 2.0, massive improvement in clean drinking water on reserves, child benefits, AOS, CPP, Covid management, etc. Most of these successes were the result of hard work, compromising and staying power.
However, in today’s environment it seems that voters don’t care about actual results, but want to see and feel that you care about their concerns. You don’t get any credits for the quality of your plan or whether you have plan at all, all that is required is giving people the feeling that you care.
I’d argue that if your plan doesn’t result in people feeling like you care about their concerns, it is a de facto bad plan
It would appear that a large part of the public prefers politicians that are loud and there is zero consideration (or perhaps a penalty) for anything that resembles a plan. It is like getting your medical advice from Joe Rogan.
If a government enacts a policy, but no one notices, does it really exist?
Communication is not a dirty word. There’s no bonus points for running the government silently. I guarantee that you can not name a single notable politician or successful leader in history who wasn’t a great communicator. That’s the job.
If the government is doing good things, they SHOULD be loud about. Why wouldn’t they? What possible reason is there not to advertise their success?
Which, of course, is why there’s automatic suspicion of quiet governments. If there’s only upside to trumpeting your successes, silence doesn’t indicate anything good.
It is so obvious. Attacking the conservative premiers is the logical next step. The federal Liberals have been laying the ground work (health, housing, daycare and a few other areas). Now, they can say, we have done our part, the provinces are failing you. The premiers are sabotaging your well being. And why is this so obvious, because it is mostly true.
I understand the recommendation of ignoring the carbon tax, but I think that is wrong. Also here is provincial attack possible. Call out the tricks of adding provincial taxes at the same time as the carbon tax increases. Challenge them to come up with a provincial variant. Highlight the rebate, where is the rebate for the provincial fuel tax increase?
However, ignoring Poilievre would be perfect. Just say, Poilievre has no plan, he is not worthy of a response, we are busy with our plan.
It is time for a fight, let’s get serious.
On the carbon tax, my heart agrees with you. But my head thinks we’ve reached a point where whoever ends in charge gets to define environmental policy, but environmental policy isn’t going to define who ends up in charge.
There's no energy left in the Liberal party. This is a great idea for the party in theory, but they seem to be operating on limiting downside over maximizing and materializing on the upside.
At this point, I'm questioning if they're staying completely out of commenting on provincial Conservative failures because they don't think it will improve their fortunes anyways *and* it might serve to hurt their ideological counterparts in the Alberta NDP / Ontario Liberals to be linked with them.