As for the make-up of the cabinet, Johns says there is talk the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs will actually be an Aboriginal, which would be very important to that particular community.
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As a result, the party’s support in its Quebec stronghold quickly began to shatter, opening the door to seat gains there by the Liberals, Conservatives and the Bloc.
With a steady 70 per cent of Canadians wanting a different government, the ballot question in election 2015 was always going to be about change. In Canadian elections last month, Trudeau’s Liberal Party won enough votes for a strong majority government, enough to govern without relying on other parties in a coalition, and chose Trudeau as leader.
When you consider we’ve just come through a federal election campaign where the selfie proved itself a legitimate and highly effective political tool, it wasn’t surprising this weekend to see Justin Trudeau, the undisputed victor of that campaign, proving once again he is the most photogenic prime minister designate in recent Canadian history.
One of the top to-do tasks involves bringing 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by year’s end.
The incoming government won’t open bids until discussing the matter with the US government – perhaps during an anticipated meeting between Trudeau and Obama at a Group of 20 meeting in Turkey next month, the official said.
Harper’s government and office was exceptionally secretive, to the point where Canada’s scientists were even muzzled.
The Middle East was raised briefly during the election campaign’s foreign policy debate in Toronto on September 28, which gave Trudeau the opportunity to accuse Harper of using it as a wedge issue domestically.
“That is what is meant by honest broker”, she said. During the East/West divide, the United Nations “turned naturally to Canada” for its reputation for even-handedness. There are many “great architects in the country who would be able to design something that responds to what Canada is about”, he said.
“Theoretically, Justin is for Keystone, but he can obviously jettison that”, Bothwell said of the project, which Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton recently expressed opposition to. Because Canada is a federation, the prime minister must formally consult on environmental issues, for example. Instead of ideologies, “short term interests”, or “playing to domestic constituencies”, effective diplomacy aims at “helping people live together in a kind of coexistence that allows people to go to work, and kids to go to school”.
He has vowed that half his ministers will be women and that his cabinet will be smaller than Harper’s 39-member ministry.
In fact, if Canada weren’t so dominated by American politics, this would arguably have happened nationally a few time ago, as it has with our parliamentary siblings.
Speaking to his supporters in Calgary, Harper made no mention about his political future, but the head of the Conservative Party released a statement indicating that the prime minister would step down. Trudeau said during the campaign that he will consult Canadians on a new electoral system with an aim to adopt proportional representation. Stealing a page from the Conservatives’ 2006 election playbook, the Liberals used it to define both themselves and their leader substantively, and to put to rest any doubts about their readiness to govern.
“Their single appeal was dollars in your pocket from the tax structure”, Pennings said.
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Trudeau hopes to buy at least 65 other jets at a cheaper price, with the savings being directed into the country’s shipbuilding program. “They view the world through the lens of ‘my place in the world, ‘ not ‘how the world serves me'”. “It was an appeal to the self-interest of voters who take faith seriously”. In an important sense, that simple, smart retort was the author of much that followed.
