), they have stuck their necks out on Syrian refugees, assisted suicide, the Pacific NorthWest LNG project and climate change. CBC’s Aaron Wherry suggests the Liberals have already accomplished “durable changes”: CPP expansion, the new child benefit, perhaps carbon pricing. We wouldn’t have been surprised if Trudeau had done bugger all on climate change. “If that’s the way he really feels, he should shut down (Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam) Monsef’s (electoral reform) committee immediately. One excellent way for a government to lose popularity would be to spend scads of money sending Monsef thither and yon and dragging people to electoral reform meetings, only to do nothing about it.

Source: National Post October 21, 2016 15:45 UTC