Justin Trudeau is planning something big
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Justin Trudeau is planning sweeping reforms for the Canadian economy, something that he does not have a mandate for, something he never brought up to the Canadian people when we had an election just one year ago. Now this is not me just randomly pontificating, this is coming from prominent liberal insider sources in a number of publications, the Toronto Star, Bloomberg, and Reuters.
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Justin Trudeau is planning sweeping reforms for the Canadian economy, something that he does not
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have a mandate for, something that he never brought up to the Canadian people when we had an election
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just one year ago. Now this is not me just randomly pontificating, this is coming from
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interviews with prominent liberal insider sources in a number of publications, the Toronto Star,
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Bloomberg, Reuters, a lot of people stepping forward and saying Trudeau has major reforms
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planned. Chrystia Freeland too, in fact one liberal calls her a social interventionist, believing
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government should be coming in, redistributing money, engineering, all of these results. That's
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the term they use, social interventionist, really something to hear a phrase like that being used
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to describe the finance minister of your G7 country. Now a lot of these reforms, we're not exactly clear
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what they're going to be, I suspect we will learn them in leaks to friendly media in the weeks to
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come. But we're going to see apparently one of these sources also says ambitious climate goals,
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as if what we have, the shutting down of the oil sands via Bill C-69, not approving any projects,
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having this carbon tax we have, $50 per ton, how much more ambitious can it get than that? Probably
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a further shutting down of the oil sands and to go from $50 per ton with the carbon tax to, well I don't
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know, a lot of activists are pushing it for it to be $300 per ton, so I guess Trudeau maybe will meet
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them at the middle, or he'll go up to $100 and then later he'll escalate it to $150, that sort of
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thing. I don't know, I'm just guessing. He's going to have to tell us, and more importantly, I don't
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think the opposition can approve the throne speech if it has all these newfangled ideas in them.
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Because you take them all together, whatever they are, we shall see, I think a sort of taxpayer-funded
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daycare might be a part of the mix. You take them all together, what do you call this all?
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You call it a platform. Now Trudeau's been criticized in the past for not having the meatiest
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platforms he could have. He just likes to say sunny ways and hope to sell people on that.
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This is a platform. If these various ideas of different social reform and radical economic
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reform, if they are in fact things that are going to come to pass. So Trudeau needs to take it to the
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people. These are not the sort of things that you can just randomly bring forward in legislation,
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albeit yes, a throne speech, but maybe that's what he wants and maybe that's what he knows
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is going to happen. Because the opposition, well, they have the ability to topple the government in
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this throne speech. And I think it's a bit of a waste to have an election just one year after,
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the expense of it, also the logistics of doing it during a pandemic. People feel like we only just had
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one, but we will have a new conservative leader. And well, it looks like from Trudeau, we'll have
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an entirely new platform that he wants to sell to the people. So I think it will be incumbent upon
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the opposition to say, this is a whole new agenda. You do not actually have a mandate from the people
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for it. So we got to go to the polls. And then Trudeau will finally know one way or the other,
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do Canadians actually want this much more socialist direction for their country to go? And perhaps