{"id":57674,"date":"2018-11-04T17:23:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T22:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=57674"},"modified":"2018-11-04T18:15:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T23:15:41","slug":"listen-up-is-trudeaumania-getting-sour2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/listen-up-is-trudeaumania-getting-sour2\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen Up! Is Trudeaumania getting sour?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hugh Mackenzie
Huntsville Doppler<\/p><\/div>\n

In less than a year from now, Canadians will be going to the polls in a federal election. No doubt some of us are a little tired of election campaigns at the moment, having gone through two of them in the past six months. Nevertheless, we are on the cusp of another one, an election campaign that is already heating up and that both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition have said will be one of the nastiest in Canadian history. Isn\u2019t that<\/strong> something to look forward to?<\/p>\n

If the Federal election were to be held today, most polls indicate that Justin Trudeau would be re-elected with a majority Liberal Government. Indeed, Canadians usually, but not always, are fairly lenient with a political party completing its first term in office. Unless they have really screwed up, they are usually given a second kick at the can. And so, the question at the moment is how badly has the Trudeau Government screwed things up?<\/p>\n

On the plus side, Canada continues to have a strong economy. Job creation remains positive and Canada continues to be held in high regard in most parts of the world. As well, I cannot think of any other Prime Minister that has had to navigate his way through the unpredictable and chaotic waters of international relations with our greatest trading partner and closest neighbour. The traditional norms of that relationship have gone out the window in the past two years. Since then, it has been a tap dance for sure and, so far, Justin Trudeau has done a pretty good job at playing David to the United States’ Goliath. But there are other issues, smaller in scope perhaps but nevertheless irritants, that could get in the way of another win for the Trudeau Government. Let\u2019s look at some of them.<\/p>\n

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