Crazy how the only one of these airing criticism that says the budget isn't doing enough is the publicly owned one.
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While Trudeau has had his run as Prime Minister and should be replaced as the leader of the Liberals for good reason, and the liberals need to wake the fuck up. These chuckle fucks in the media are driving people to Bitcoin Milhouse as if that stain on his parent's mattress actually would do good things for the country instead of dragging us backwards like his voting history tells us he WILL.
Edit: seems like everyone is just glossing over the fact that there are pictures of him in black face. That shit wasn't cool.
What exactly has Trudeau done wrong? I keep seeing comments like this but I can't recall anything.
The better question may be, what has he done right?
That's not to say it's a right/wrong binary, but rather: What has he made better? How has he improved the lives of people living here?
His biggest accomplishment has really been not being Stephen Harper, Andrew Scheer, or Erin O'Toole. And the biggest reason to vote Liberal in the next election is him not being Pierre Poilievre.
As someone who was in elementary school under Harper and (obviously) not into politics...can I ask for an abridged version of your view on Harper's terms and what your biggest complaints were with his leadership?
I've done some looking online for a while, but it's hard to find good retrospectives on his whole stint as prime minister and not old single-issue news articles.
All that comes to mind when I think Harper is:
He converted several social welfare programs to tax credits (meaning people had to have the money up front to participate, and wait for a refund at tax time). He slashed funding to scientific research that didn't promote his worldview. He fired public researchers for speaking about their research that contradicted his narratives. He sold off the federal wheat pool to foreign interests. He began the country's push toward a private healthcare system. He slashed funding for social support systems. He changed provincial equalization payments in a way that put extra strain on poorer provinces.
He made things easier for the rich and those from hegemonic social and ethnic groups, while making things harder for the rest. As is the conservative way.