Justin Trudeau's First 100 Days, and beyond

betsy · February 25, 2017

I got curious as to how Trudeau's first 100 days would be like, and here's some things I found.

Trudeau gave away $5.3 billion from his swearing in on Nov. 4, 2015 to Feb 12, 2016.

Of those $5.3 billion, only $997 million was for projects inside Canada. The rest ($4.3 billion) goes outside of Canada, to be spent on everything from aid for refugees to helping poor countries fight climate change.

http://www.torontosun.com/2016/02/13/liberals-outspent-tories-in-first-100-days

In his first 100 days, out of the 214 promises he made during his campaign, he delivered on 13 of those promises, and broken at least 2.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/02/11/promises-kept-broken-in-progress-during-trudeau-s-first-100-days-in-power_n_9212616.html

Edited February 25, 2017 by betsy

betsy · February 25, 2017

On Nov 9, 2016, former Prime Minister Stephen Harper tweeted to congratulate Trump, AND TO PUSH FOR THE KEYSTONE PIPELINE.

Imagine that! He's no longer Prime Minister, and yet he's still campaigning and pushing for Keystone!

What about Trudeau?

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Even though political correctness, globalism and the phony carbon pricing racket got kicked to the curb in favour of jobs by President-elect Donald J. Trump and American voters, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau showed, like the media who miscalled the election, he missed the boat.

Trudeau told some budding justice warrior recruits, who should have been at school but were at the WE Day concert in Ottawa on Wednesday, that “we’re going to keep working with people right around the world.”

Where?

China? Mexico? India? The countries that now have many of North America’s jobs?

http://www.torontosun.com/2016/11/09/harper-gets-what-trudeau-doesnt-in-wake-of-trump-win

....and in his town hall tour, he took credit for the Keystone pipeline - that it got approved during his watch! :rolleyes:

Edited February 25, 2017 by betsy

betsy · February 26, 2017

Actually, to be fair, Trudeau has delivered more promises than he's broken. He's broken a lot though - which makes him just like any other poltician who tends to make empty promises, just so to be elected.

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PROMISES BROKEN

— Run deficits of less than $10 billion in each of the first three years of the mandate, still reducing the debt-to-GDP ratio each year and balancing the books in the final year. The Liberals' inaugural budget projects deficits for at least five years, totalling $113 billion, including almost $30 billion this year alone. The government hopes to lower the debt-to-GDP ratio over the course of the mandate.

— The tax break for middle-income earners was to be "revenue neutral," paid for by hiking taxes on the wealthiest one per cent. In fact, it will cost the federal treasury $1.2 billion a year.

— Reduce the small business tax rate to nine per cent from 11 per cent.

— Maintain funding level for the Canadian Armed Forces. Government pushed back $3.7 billion for new equipment to 2020.

— Immediately scrap the planned $44-billion purchase of F-35 stealth fighter jets, launch open and transparent competition to replace the current CF-18 fighter jets and reallocate the savings to the navy.

— Immediately invest $3 billion over four years to improve home care. This promise is now tied to negotiations with the provinces and territories on a new health accord which the government hopes to have in place next year.

— Cap how much can be claimed through the stock option deduction on annual gains higher than $100,000.

— Trudeau's verbal promise to "restore" door-to-door home mail delivery. The government is committed only to stopping any further reduction in home delivery while it conducts a review of Canada Post's operations.