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Trudeau’s record may be spotty, but his biggest accomplishment was a national child-care program

theconversation.com Trudeau’s record may be spotty, but his biggest accomplishment was a national child-care program

Whoever replaces Justin Trudeau as prime minister must prioritize the further expansion of the his government’s child-care program in the years ahead.

Authors

Naomi Lightman: Associate Professor of Sociology, Toronto Metropolitan University
Ernie Lightman: Professor Emeritus of Social Policy, University of Toronto

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And his COVID response was solid.
- And his Trump handling is world class
- And legalizing weed.

In purely fiscal terms, study after study shows that a dollar invested in child care yields a greater financial return over a lifetime than any other expenditure of public funds.
Much of the world (notably South Korea, Japan, et al) need to take a close look at this

I wish it was electoral reform: !fairvote@lemmy.ca.

And election reform right? That was a huge part of his initial platform.
- ... and that was his biggest failure for which I'll never forgive him.
  You know how smöl PP might be our next PM? (Polling is shifting towards LPC but it's still quite possible)... had he actually gotten serious about MMP or PR the CPC's extremist views wouldn't stand a chance.
- <sniff>
  yeah and that...
  The irony will take the sting out if a Liberal-NDP split lets the Conservatives skate up the middle.
  
  Could be worse you could live in the States or North Korea... It's getting hard to tell the difference other that that the current firing squads are restricted to convinced criminals...

Didn't he already abdicate and the Liberal party operators were picking another monarch? We should wait for the white smoke.
- Tell me you don't understand how our country works without telling me...
  
  Oh, I know exactly how party politics, FPTP and the parliamentary system works.

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