By Pepper Parr
March 22, 2022
BURLINGTON, ON
Pictures are indeed often worth a thousand words.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau -a very happy camper.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced yesterday that his government had come to an agreement with the New Democrats on the kind of legislation that would be brought forward in the next three years; including pharmacare, dental care, affordable housing and climate change.
The agreement is said to ensure that the Liberals will not have to go to the polls until sometime in 2025 – pretty good job security.
So far four people have commented with somewhat reactionary points of view. Perhaps they should consider as follows
Phil
• 50% of those who voted in the last federal election did so for these two left of centre parties. So there will be a government supported by half the popular vote. That’s a great step towards a wider democracy. If proportional representation was in place by its very nature our governments would always be coalitions and left leaning.
• Broadbent and Lewis both entered into actual coalitions with the Liberal party of the day. I’m not saying it worked out well for them or the NDP. So I am not sure why Phil thinks Singh has less integrity than those two. Surely he has high integrity for seeking to get his party’s policies enacted at the likely expense of he and his party gaining power. In other words is that not selfless.
• Singh is hoping the Liberals deliver on national pharmacare and national dental care, just as the Liberals have on national daycare. So why doubt, now with a Commons majority, why the Liberals will not deliver on that? Even bozoe Ford is going to sign on to the daycare program soon – so he can announce it as an election goodie.
• Yes, those programs will be expensive. But they will be reflective of our Canadian caring identity, for which we are known around the world. What’s so wrong with that?
Ted
• The accountability is there. If these things do not transpire, the NDP will pull the plug and the Liberals will crash.
• The majority? Check your math. The Liberals, NDP and Greens, all left leaning parties gathered 52% of the vote. I think that counts as a majority. So what are you calling a majority.
Penny,
• The national daycare program has in short order gone through parliament during a minority government, and is now implemented. So why do you think dental and pharmacare programs cannot be achieved by what is to all intents and purposes a majority government?
Denise
• If you take a closer look there are a number of policy areas where the Liberal party and the NDP overlap.
I would have preferred that JT do what was best for the country, rather than get behind (minority) NDP agenda items, simply for his party to stay in power longer. Or perhaps I see this all wrong, I know very little about politics. But feel the spending has to have hard limits. The pigeons will come home to roost one day, and then more “blame shifting” will ensue.
I never supported the political views of Douglas, Lewis, Broadbent, Layton, or Mulcair. But you could respect those politicians for their integrity. Unfortunately, Singh has no integrity–he’s just a champagne socialist interested only in his bespoke suits, Rolexes, and BMW. The Liberals have moved so far left as to now render the NDP irrelevant.
Penny,
Along with more cash for reconciliation! None of this will happen. More
promises, with out ethics or accountability.
The latest elephant in the room being the Ukraine and the new
Cold War.
The socialists are desperate to cling to power at any cost to Canadians.
I suspect we will see major change in three years or less however who would even want to govern what is left .
When the majority people feel have no voice they turn to other avenues. It
will not be pretty.
How does Jagmeet Singh sleep at night?
Does the NDP really think that legislation regarding pharmacare, dental care and affordable housing will actually translate into programs over the next 3 years by the Liberal Government?
Love to see when politicians scam each other.