Canada

I think this government will be remembered as having massively lost the communication war in all fronts.

Carbon tax is objectively a great policy, but has been smeared. Electoral reform would gave been a disaster with no two parties agreeing (I want electoral reform, but one party unilaterally doing so would in effect doom our democracy, and every single interest group in the country wanted him to open the constitution to enshrine their cause as a right).

On housing and the economy I’m not impressed, but he got us through renegotiating NAFTA and a slew of other treaties during Trumos first term that frankly none of the other parties could have done.

Same with the pandemic, my wife and I watched and listened to his regular updates, Canada got safe and effective vaccines, and we evidenced economic collapse and a recession. But you never hear about the good from that period, it’s all scandal and “freedom” from the press.

Post Covid they’ve really floundered and we’ve seen all of our media shift further right, institutions like The Glove and Mail is all opinion and Toronto Star got purchase and taken private, firing their editors who refused to follow suit.

In a way Trudeau was always doomed, but even then he has both over played his hand while not taking enough action.

I’ll remember this party with mixed feelings, I push to not forget the good, but I can’t deny at this stage they’re failing.