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Old 12-07-2015, 11:27 PM   #1904
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I think and I cringe at saying this that we do have to give Justin a chance to settle into the job. He is a very inexperienced guy, and being in a election campaign where you have people in your campaign running to the press and correcting your blunders and being in parliament are two different things.

He's already got one problem and that's when the costs of sending 300 delegates comes out, that's going to be a bit of a scandal, and optics wise the Nanny Stuff has made him look dishonest.

Anyone who did any analysis of the middle class tax break knew that it wasn't going to work and was a bit of a shell game when you add in the change of deductions of your paycheck, we'll end up in the same place or a little bit behind.

I think if he could go back and make a change he wouldn't have pulled the fighters so quickly, and it was noticeable that Canada wasn't mentioned as an ally in Obama's address. Right now we've gone back to being an unreliable partner, and any other military strategy is going to involve men in danger areas whether its training or engaging with special forces.

He's already been caught muzzling federal employees when he basically told immigration officers and managers that they couldn't talk to the press.

He went to Paris with Harper's environmental targets from my understanding so his statement that Canada was back looks incredibly weird unless you count that he took half of the government with him.

He's going to have a difficult Prime Ministership, he's facing the same situation that Harper faced in 2008, so how he handles it is going to be compared to the last government is going to be a major point of debate.

His mandate letter shutting down tanker traffic in Northern BC basically killed the Northern Gateway Pipeline which is another dagger to the energy industry, and looks silly because that pipeline was studied every which way environmentally.

I'm not onboard with his increase in funding to CBC, I think they're dramatically over funded now and their senior leadership is extremely entitled already.

But even the CBC has stopped protecting him like they did in the election campaign.

But he's only been Prime Minister for a few weeks, but he's going to have to stop dodging questions in Parliament and start acting like a Prime Minister instead of an MP that can hide behind others. Its a tough lesson, and it goes back to him having very little experience in his life that could prepare him for this job.

Like I said though, fair is fair, lets see how he settles into the toughest job in the country.

I'd prefer if he separated himself from Wynne and her ideas,

I can still say I'm comfortable that I didn't vote for him, but he's there now.
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