Trudeau isn't dumb, we are. And don't think picking another candidate would have made a difference, they are told what to do.
We aren't "dumb" per se, but we've all collectively made a choice based on the "options" that were available to us... you and I both know the "options" are a farce, because big $$ controls anything of importance, anyway.
In the end, we chose "good hair" :lmao:
So far he hasn't backed off on any of his promises except for the one about refugees I think. Senate reform, mail delivery, census, gender equality, electoral reform, environment, infrastructure, consultative approaches... all still on track. He's even stood firm on some of the off-the-cuff comments he blurted out without any thought (CF-18s vs. ISIS).
Don't count the refugee situation as a "broken promise": he backed off of accepting 25,000 refugees all at once, because we hadn't the infrastructure setup in December! Any person who was monitoring that situation with an ounce of effort would have seen that, and to his credit, he did and he throttled our influx of refugees so we could do right by them, and by ourselves. Bravo, Trudeau.
The fact that people are referring to that as a "broken promise" is ****ing ludicrous, and an obvious political smear tactic.
Agreed. It moves us further from the direction society needs to be heading. Buy local, Buy well made products that last. Invest in your community, local economy and not multinational companies. Cheap disposable junk is filling our land fills and eroding our hard working manufacturers and crafts people.
Don't take this as an attack on your statement, but I'd like to challenge this somewhat ignorant ideology: You ARE correct to say that we should be supporting local businesses and investing in our economy, BUT it is not detrimental to us to be investing in OTHER economies as well...
The global economy (although far from perfect) was devised as a means for ALL populations to conduct trade and exist in peace - to trade with each other, buying each other's goods in an attempt to equalize our quality of life and spread the wealth of our economies equally. Yes, the farmers in Leamington produce amazing tomatoes, but the farmers in Brazil produce juicy, sweet pineapples, too. The shortcomings of our trade deals with Brazil is that Brazilians aren't given any incentive to buy anything from us - and it's this trade deficit that causes our loss of jobs.
I believe in global trade and fair trade agreements, however, we have strayed from the original intention of the global economy by allowing our brain-dead politicians to accept influences from the multinational corporations who's sole purpose is profit. These corporations are destroying our sovereignty (by suing our governments!) and influencing our politicians who only care about the vote count.
The system is broken; all we need to figure out NOW is how many Molotov cocktails to make, and who to lobb them at.