One of the top priorities of Canada’s recently elected government will be pursuing the legalization of marijuana, the country’s prime minister said Friday in an address before parliament.
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The Justin Trudeau era is officially underway in Parliament with the reading of a throne speech sketching out the priorities of the new Liberal government.
The Liberals, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, won a majority mandate in national elections in October on a platform that promised new…
Electoral reform with the 2015 election being the last to rely on the first-past-the-post system.
“We will make it easier for new Canadians to build successful lives in Canada, reunite with their families, and contribute to the economic success of all citizens”. But Friday’s speech was not above taking some shots at the former government’s ways, without directly naming it.
The government’s agenda will reflect the belief that “Canada’s strength is its diversity”, Johnston said.
The speech delivered by the Governor General outlines the direction that the Trudeau Liberal Government is heading.
“While the speech did not include any specific commitment to restoring federal public services, we will be looking to the government’s first budget to include the necessary resources to allow the public service to implement these commitments”, Benson said. “The government will make real change happen”.
New environmental assessment processes with decisions based on scientific evidence.
Trudeau intends to quickly honour his pledge to cut the tax rate for middle-income earners, and to partly redress the socially destructive income gap by providing a bigger, more progressive child benefit to those who need it, funded by hiking taxes on the wealthiest.
“We all want to keep firearms out of the hands of criminals, but I’m afraid they’re going to be making a move on law-abiding firearm owners”, Sopuck said.
The speech also promised a transparent review of Canada’s Armed Forces and defence needs, with the goal of “building a leaner, more agile, better-equipped military”.
Parliament is expected to sit for about a week and then rise until late January. Among them: Working with the provinces to fight climate change by putting a price on carbon; reviving Ottawa’s broken “nation to nation” relationship with indigenous peoples; and refocusing Canada’s role in the world by renewing our commitment to United Nations peacekeeping and helping the poorest. The Conservatives will likely get one opposition day next week.
Many of those recommendations, like the formation of a panel of inquiry to investigate why a disproportionately large number of aboriginal women are murdered or go missing, can be easily met. But others, like improving the level of health care in native communities, may require substantial expenditures.
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She and her husband Marc Emery, Canada’s self-styled Prince of Pot, will be calling on Trudeau to announce a moratorium on marijuana arrests while they develop the details of their legalized pot policy.
