Juno News - Justin Trudeau is planning something big

00:00:00.000 Justin Trudeau is planning sweeping reforms for the Canadian economy, something that he does not

00:00:11.180 have a mandate for, something that he never brought up to the Canadian people when we had an election

00:00:15.720 just one year ago. Now this is not me just randomly pontificating, this is coming from

00:00:21.800 interviews with prominent liberal insider sources in a number of publications, the Toronto Star,

00:00:27.080 Bloomberg, Reuters, a lot of people stepping forward and saying Trudeau has major reforms

00:00:32.940 planned. Chrystia Freeland too, in fact one liberal calls her a social interventionist, believing

00:00:38.700 government should be coming in, redistributing money, engineering, all of these results. That's

00:00:43.380 the term they use, social interventionist, really something to hear a phrase like that being used

00:00:48.660 to describe the finance minister of your G7 country. Now a lot of these reforms, we're not exactly clear

00:00:54.420 what they're going to be, I suspect we will learn them in leaks to friendly media in the weeks to

00:00:58.600 come. But we're going to see apparently one of these sources also says ambitious climate goals,

00:01:04.460 as if what we have, the shutting down of the oil sands via Bill C-69, not approving any projects,

00:01:10.600 having this carbon tax we have, $50 per ton, how much more ambitious can it get than that? Probably

00:01:16.720 a further shutting down of the oil sands and to go from $50 per ton with the carbon tax to, well I don't

00:01:22.380 know, a lot of activists are pushing it for it to be $300 per ton, so I guess Trudeau maybe will meet

00:01:27.240 them at the middle, or he'll go up to $100 and then later he'll escalate it to $150, that sort of

00:01:31.860 thing. I don't know, I'm just guessing. He's going to have to tell us, and more importantly, I don't

00:01:38.980 think the opposition can approve the throne speech if it has all these newfangled ideas in them.

00:01:44.900 Because you take them all together, whatever they are, we shall see, I think a sort of taxpayer-funded

00:01:49.180 daycare might be a part of the mix. You take them all together, what do you call this all?

00:01:53.880 You call it a platform. Now Trudeau's been criticized in the past for not having the meatiest

00:01:58.920 platforms he could have. He just likes to say sunny ways and hope to sell people on that.

00:02:04.820 This is a platform. If these various ideas of different social reform and radical economic

00:02:10.400 reform, if they are in fact things that are going to come to pass. So Trudeau needs to take it to the

00:02:16.040 people. These are not the sort of things that you can just randomly bring forward in legislation,

00:02:20.940 albeit yes, a throne speech, but maybe that's what he wants and maybe that's what he knows

00:02:25.280 is going to happen. Because the opposition, well, they have the ability to topple the government in

00:02:30.640 this throne speech. And I think it's a bit of a waste to have an election just one year after,

00:02:36.240 the expense of it, also the logistics of doing it during a pandemic. People feel like we only just had

00:02:41.800 one, but we will have a new conservative leader. And well, it looks like from Trudeau, we'll have

00:02:46.500 an entirely new platform that he wants to sell to the people. So I think it will be incumbent upon

00:02:51.520 the opposition to say, this is a whole new agenda. You do not actually have a mandate from the people

00:02:56.740 for it. So we got to go to the polls. And then Trudeau will finally know one way or the other,

00:03:01.700 do Canadians actually want this much more socialist direction for their country to go? And perhaps

00:03:07.380 he's willing to make that wager.

Juno News - August 24, 2020