Liberal Plan to Re-Invent LPC party appears to be in Disarray. New Leader Justin Trudeau looks to be taking a scattergun approach to a national economic plan or any other kind of plan on major issues of concern, lots of trial balloons tossed windwards from a rudderless helmsman. quote: This is not a “new” or “reinvented” Liberal party; it is not even the centrist party of recent memory. From the evidence of the convention, it is an almost parodically left-wing party, and even if, as expected, the leader ignores most of the members’ handiwork in drafting the platform, what has been coming out of his own mouth is not hugely dissimilar: a difference more of degree than direction. Trudeau’s economic thinking has been emerging in stages. Some of it has been encouraging — the openness to foreign investment in the oilpatch, for example. But more of it has been of the windy “struggling middle class” variety, a policy-light and almost entirely fact-free account of recent economic developments. Some of the ideas that would represent a national frameworks of topics pivotal to Canadians that we do hear the NDP & GPC raising + in their platform would be quote: A small sample of the resolutions before the convention (almost all of those proposed to date have passed) would include: a National Transportation Strategy, a National Energy Strategy, a National Grid Strategy, a National Manufacturing Strategy, several National Strategies for Childhood Development, a National Framework for Mental Health, a National Action Plan on Disability, a National Water Policy, a National Pharmacare Program, a National Youth Jobs Strategy, a Science-based Innovation Strategy and a Transformative Canadian Infrastructure Investment Plan. This last was undersigned by the Liberal caucus, which means Trudeau, and leaves no doubt that it would entail a great deal of additional public borrowing: One per cent of GDP, or $20 billion a year. unquote leaderpost/health/Liberal+plan+reinvent+party+appears+disarray/9537367/story.html
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 05:41:12 +0000
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