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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

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.

I'm not overly concerned about this. It really looks like Canada's presence at the Paris Convention has repaired a lot of the damage to Canada's image that occurred during the Harper years.

The nanny scandal is completely moronic partisan garbage.

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.

Well this was obvious from the campaign get go and why I never really cared about the promises that each of the parties made in regards to the middle-class. They were all different shades of lipstick on the same pig.

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.

I know I'm in the minority here, but I'm totally fine with pulling the jets out.

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

I'd need to see more details on that before I'd call it muzzling. Seems like SOP to me.

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.

Do you have a source for this? I'm not doubting, I just can't find any reference to it anywhere. If so, yeah that looks pretty disingenuous.

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.

Frankly, he's doing what voters in B.C. asked him to do, and since he got a fairly strong mandate here by running on his "B.C. roots" it'd look pretty bad on him if he did nothing to protect the coastline. The pipeline isn't really the problem here. What most voters in B.C. have a problem with is increased tanker traffic, especially after the spill in English Bay this year.

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.

The CPC were trying to kill the CBC with a thousand paper cuts. I think the CBC is an important institution and keeping it well-funded is absolutely in the country's best interests.