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			<title>Autopsy</title>
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			<content-encoded><![CDATA[<strong>SHORT EDITORIAL</strong>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">The autopsies have begun on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's first two years in office—the midway point of his four-year mandate—and it does not look good.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">By mid-October, the recreational use of marijuana will be legal in our country and, unless things change, it will likely go down as the Liberals only major accomplishment.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">And it is only “major” if you think legalizing pot was a brilliant idea, which most Canadians don't want to admit until they see evidence that nothing has derailed.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Other than that, Trudeau hasn't done much.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">But taking a cheap shot at Donald Trump at the end of the last G-7 conference, and being about the only world leader who doesn't recognize that Trump has the thinnest of skins, he threw NAFTA talks into no sure thing.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">He bought a $4.5 billion pipeline that can't be built under its current climate, angered partners who so badly wanted to Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact, bought old jets as a stop-gap measure for our military, and raised taxes to the point that no one believes him that they are better off today.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Other than that, well, there is no other than that.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Trudeau's legislative record is pretty thin. His repeated vow that the 2015 federal election would be the last one fought under the first-past-the-post system never came to fruition. It is dead on the table.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">He never restored the postal system to a single customer the way he promised, and made sure convicted terrorists got to keep their Canadian citizenships.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Of the 47 bills that received royal assent, a full 22 of time give the Trudeau government the go-ahead to tax more.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">The Liberals love to talk bold acts but have difficulty coming up with them.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">And, as for legislation that helps all Canadians, and not just the few that progressives love to cater to, there is nothing to pull out of the Trudeau hat.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">As a magician, he's not a bad spare geography teacher.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">As a prime minister, he is out of his league.</span></p>]]></content-encoded>
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			<wp-post_date>2018-09-13 13:32:13</wp-post_date>
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