Trudeau's 100 days in office
Feb. 12 marked the 100th day
in office for Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau and the Liberal government.
The significance of the 100-day timeline is that it is believed that if a leader has done well in the beginning of their term, they will continue to do well for the remainder of their political period.
There are a lot of mixed reviews on how Trudeau has done so far.
“What the Liberal government has done in the first 100 days has created a lot more chaos than there was before,” conservative Matt Jeneroux told CBC’s Power and Politics.
According to TrudeauMetre.ca, out of the 215 campaign promises they are tracking, 169 have not been started, 30 are in progress, 13 have been achieved and only 3 have been broken.
The broken promises include the middle class tax cut being revenue neutral, which will in fact cost the government more than they were expecting; to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by the end of 2015, which is on track to be reached by the end of February; and to immediately implement the marking regulations of imported guns.
The Liberal government has succeeded on over four times the amount of promises than they have broken.
Cutting the middle class tax bracket and raising the upper class tax rate, unmuzzling government scientists, restoring the long-form census, gender parity in the cabinet and launching an inquiry into murdered and missing indigenous women are just some of the successes accomplished within the first 100 days.
And out of the 30 promises that are currently in progress, some of those included are to reverse the funding cuts to the CBC, establish a free online service to learn English and French as a second language, make admission to National Parks free, revert the plan to cancel Canada Post door-to-door service, ensure clean water availability on 93 communities and reserves and to legalize marijuana.
In the press conference held on Feb. 12, Trudeau posed a question to all Canadians.
“Today marks 100 days since we were sworn in, and as you know, we’ve been busy. We were elected on the promise to bring real change to Canada and to Canadians. Have we delivered? Well, you tell me.”
The significance of the 100-day timeline is that it is believed that if a leader has done well in the beginning of their term, they will continue to do well for the remainder of their political period.
There are a lot of mixed reviews on how Trudeau has done so far.
“What the Liberal government has done in the first 100 days has created a lot more chaos than there was before,” conservative Matt Jeneroux told CBC’s Power and Politics.
According to TrudeauMetre.ca, out of the 215 campaign promises they are tracking, 169 have not been started, 30 are in progress, 13 have been achieved and only 3 have been broken.
The broken promises include the middle class tax cut being revenue neutral, which will in fact cost the government more than they were expecting; to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by the end of 2015, which is on track to be reached by the end of February; and to immediately implement the marking regulations of imported guns.
The Liberal government has succeeded on over four times the amount of promises than they have broken.
Cutting the middle class tax bracket and raising the upper class tax rate, unmuzzling government scientists, restoring the long-form census, gender parity in the cabinet and launching an inquiry into murdered and missing indigenous women are just some of the successes accomplished within the first 100 days.
And out of the 30 promises that are currently in progress, some of those included are to reverse the funding cuts to the CBC, establish a free online service to learn English and French as a second language, make admission to National Parks free, revert the plan to cancel Canada Post door-to-door service, ensure clean water availability on 93 communities and reserves and to legalize marijuana.
In the press conference held on Feb. 12, Trudeau posed a question to all Canadians.
“Today marks 100 days since we were sworn in, and as you know, we’ve been busy. We were elected on the promise to bring real change to Canada and to Canadians. Have we delivered? Well, you tell me.”
