@SUD123456 said:
Not just economic policy. War Measures Act for instance. Compare that to bill C51.
Mulcair made the mistake of not defending the left which hurt him big in Ontario, and Québec reverted to form.
Atlantic Canada and the GTA bought into the same page from Chretien's playbook regarding infrastructure. You are probably too young to remember the 93 campaign where it was all about deficit spending and infrastructure. The PCs desperately tried to defend against that line with mocking ads of guys with shovels digging holes full of money/loonies with the implication that the liberals would piss away money on pointless things. Of course, the reality is that a great deal of the promises of infrastructure are impossible to deliver because the process to envision them, select them, put them out to tender, and then execute them is longer than the lifespan of the gov't.... which all gov'ts that promise these things eventually figure out.
There is no new generation of liberals. There is not a single thing in this platform that is different from multiple platforms from the past liberals, just in my lifetime. None of this is a surprise since Canadians are decidedly centrist. Seven decades before NAFTA a Liberal Prime Minister campaigned on reciprocity... aka free trade. A decade before that a Conservative Prime Minister campaigned on infrastructure. Nothing has changed except social mores which have generally become more open minded.
Last night was historic in going from 3rd to first, yes, but not within the sense of whether the Liberals would survive. They only had 40 seats and the NDP 30 in 1984, and crazy people called them dead then too. But anyone following Canadian politics should realize we are decidedly centrist which is where the Liberals live. We just get tired of gov'ts from time to time.
I would hope that this isn't the last FPTP election since the alternative is insane in the Canadian context, unless you want to be like Italy and change the gov't more frequently than changing your clothes.
War Measures Act was created by a Conservative though and yeah Trudeau used it over 40 years ago, at a time when the populace seemed to agree with it. Retrospectively it's disliked but in the context of the time period it's different.
Quebec also hasn't gone so decidedly Liberal since '93. I was pretty shocked they won so many seats there, as are others.
Yeah I was 1 year old in '93 and don't remember much from election campaigns until the 2000s. I think you are being a little too cynical though :P I'll be cautiously optimistic of the Trudeau Liberals as of now and a lot of it will depend on who he appoints to his cabinet in two weeks time.
I like the idea of having proportional representation but not sure how it would be implemented. Trudeau said today in his press conference this will be the last election with FPTP. What they will change it too is up in the air.
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Canada to end airstrikes in Syria and Iraq, new prime minister Trudeau says
Canadian Liberal prime minister designate Justin Trudeau has confirmed that Canada will withdraw its fighter jets from the US-led mission against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
In his first news conference following the sweeping majority Liberal victory in Canada’s federal election, the visibly fatigued leader said he had spoken with US president Barack Obama in a phone call during which he discussed his intention to pull Canada’s fighter jets out of the anti-Isis campaign.
“I committed that we would continue to engage in a responsible way that understands how important Canada’s role is to play in the fight against Isil, but he understands the commitments I’ve made about ending the combat mission,” Trudeau said.
He did not set out a timeline for the withdrawal.
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