You make a good point: it is true that Justin Trudeau, a born-and-bred blue blood, has unexpectedly used his power in government to enact far more economic and social policies that support middle and low income Canadians than most prime ministers have achieved.
There is only so far that any Canadian PM would go, esp Liberal, to challenge the elite powers that rule this country -- is it 20 families? But PMJT has indeed tackled perennial problems such as child poverty, child care, health funding, climate change, taxes on the wealthy, etc that must piss off his social circle. He's not an ideologue the way Poilievre is devoted to the Milton Friedman bible, but JT seems to genuinely care about the commoners. How ironic that he has been vilified as an out-of-touch elitist. A small handful of PMs have not come from elite families -- Dief, Chretien, Harper. Justin is a rare example of a rich, privileged PM who did not simply protect his class interests, but focused on helping the masses. How comical to watch Morneau whine about the budget....
I believe voters are less interested in the labels moderate / progressive these days. I think they care about doing, or being seen to be doing, something (anything) about issues they care about. They value activity more than the nature of that activity.
The right / moderate wing of the Liberals party has no chance in this environment. Gradual improvement by modest incremental policy changes is not going to get one additional vote. Trudeau understands this (finally now?), and he is not going anywhere till the next election.
I don’t understand why people are still listening to Mulcair non-sense after he has been wrong so many times. It’s evident that he is a sore loser who is still obsessing over the fact that Trudeau beat him in 2015
This feels like a blog about a large group of opinion columnists as well… cough cough Coyne…cough, complaints but no actionable ideas unless they’re ones that have failed in the past
You make a good point: it is true that Justin Trudeau, a born-and-bred blue blood, has unexpectedly used his power in government to enact far more economic and social policies that support middle and low income Canadians than most prime ministers have achieved.
There is only so far that any Canadian PM would go, esp Liberal, to challenge the elite powers that rule this country -- is it 20 families? But PMJT has indeed tackled perennial problems such as child poverty, child care, health funding, climate change, taxes on the wealthy, etc that must piss off his social circle. He's not an ideologue the way Poilievre is devoted to the Milton Friedman bible, but JT seems to genuinely care about the commoners. How ironic that he has been vilified as an out-of-touch elitist. A small handful of PMs have not come from elite families -- Dief, Chretien, Harper. Justin is a rare example of a rich, privileged PM who did not simply protect his class interests, but focused on helping the masses. How comical to watch Morneau whine about the budget....
I believe voters are less interested in the labels moderate / progressive these days. I think they care about doing, or being seen to be doing, something (anything) about issues they care about. They value activity more than the nature of that activity.
The right / moderate wing of the Liberals party has no chance in this environment. Gradual improvement by modest incremental policy changes is not going to get one additional vote. Trudeau understands this (finally now?), and he is not going anywhere till the next election.
I don’t understand why people are still listening to Mulcair non-sense after he has been wrong so many times. It’s evident that he is a sore loser who is still obsessing over the fact that Trudeau beat him in 2015
Nailed it.
This feels like a blog about a large group of opinion columnists as well… cough cough Coyne…cough, complaints but no actionable ideas unless they’re ones that have failed in the past
Morneau has friends on Bay street?
Dominic LeBlanc is one of Prime Minister Trudeau's closest friends. That has not changed as far as I know.