I think this government will be remembered as having massively lost the communication war in all fronts.
Carbon tax is objectively a great policy, but has been smeared. Electoral reform would gave been a disaster with no two parties agreeing (I want electoral reform, but one party unilaterally doing so would in effect doom our democracy, and every single interest group in the country wanted him to open the constitution to enshrine their cause as a right).
On housing and the economy I’m not impressed, but he got us through renegotiating NAFTA and a slew of other treaties during Trumos first term that frankly none of the other parties could have done.
Same with the pandemic, my wife and I watched and listened to his regular updates, Canada got safe and effective vaccines, and we evidenced economic collapse and a recession. But you never hear about the good from that period, it’s all scandal and “freedom” from the press.
Post Covid they’ve really floundered and we’ve seen all of our media shift further right, institutions like The Glove and Mail is all opinion and Toronto Star got purchase and taken private, firing their editors who refused to follow suit.
In a way Trudeau was always doomed, but even then he has both over played his hand while not taking enough action.
I’ll remember this party with mixed feelings, I push to not forget the good, but I can’t deny at this stage they’re failing.
To say I’m not impressed with housing is a real understatement
Housing in Canada is just insanely unaffordable. I have a salary well over twice the average here in Canada and I can barely afford the 450sqft apartment I’m living in.
You should not have to spend more than 25-30% of your income on housing, but even withy income I spend a good 50%, it’s insane
With that in mind its very understandable to see people in their 60’s still living with roommates while having two jobs because they simply can’t afford to live here
Yep, I agree. Housing has been nothing but bad policy. The only good policy was the mortgage stress test they added. Arguably that saved our bacon during the interest rate hikes.
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I think this government will be remembered as having massively lost the communication war in all fronts.
Carbon tax is objectively a great policy, but has been smeared. Electoral reform would gave been a disaster with no two parties agreeing (I want electoral reform, but one party unilaterally doing so would in effect doom our democracy, and every single interest group in the country wanted him to open the constitution to enshrine their cause as a right).
On housing and the economy I’m not impressed, but he got us through renegotiating NAFTA and a slew of other treaties during Trumos first term that frankly none of the other parties could have done.
Same with the pandemic, my wife and I watched and listened to his regular updates, Canada got safe and effective vaccines, and we evidenced economic collapse and a recession. But you never hear about the good from that period, it’s all scandal and “freedom” from the press.
Post Covid they’ve really floundered and we’ve seen all of our media shift further right, institutions like The Glove and Mail is all opinion and Toronto Star got purchase and taken private, firing their editors who refused to follow suit.
In a way Trudeau was always doomed, but even then he has both over played his hand while not taking enough action.
I’ll remember this party with mixed feelings, I push to not forget the good, but I can’t deny at this stage they’re failing.
Ah yes, the “Everything he did was great but everyone is too stupid to see it argument” half assed pseudo intellectuals like to trot out.
Obviously not everything they did was great, but the good things they did went often under the radar or were overshadowed.
(that’s cause there weren’t any)
Ah yes, the “Nothing he did was remotely passable but everyone is too stupid to see it argument” half assed pseudo intellectuals like to trot out.
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“a fucking cold”
We’re done here.
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Let’s see here.
You have no idea how our politics work here.
You have no idea what Canada faces with a declining population.
Alright, we know who you are now. We’re done here.
You have no idea what this country is, what problems it faces, have no regards to the well-being of its residents.
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To say I’m not impressed with housing is a real understatement
Housing in Canada is just insanely unaffordable. I have a salary well over twice the average here in Canada and I can barely afford the 450sqft apartment I’m living in.
You should not have to spend more than 25-30% of your income on housing, but even withy income I spend a good 50%, it’s insane
With that in mind its very understandable to see people in their 60’s still living with roommates while having two jobs because they simply can’t afford to live here
Yep, I agree. Housing has been nothing but bad policy. The only good policy was the mortgage stress test they added. Arguably that saved our bacon during the interest rate hikes.
I think the housing design catalogue thing is pretty good, although we haven’t seen it takes effect yet.
I also think the foreign home buyer ban, while far from perfect has cooled the market a little bit.
The fear and hate messaging that’s pushed by the right all over the world is really powerful and hard to combat. Its sad seeing it.