Here is a look at broken promises by the Liberal Party of Canada

1. LIBERAL PARTY OF
CANADA –
ELECTION
PROMISES
BY: PAUL YOUNG CPA, CGA
DATE: MAY 28, 2017

2. PAUL YOUNG - BIO
• CPA, CGA
• Academia (PF1, FA4 and MS2)
• SME – Risk Management
• SME – Close, Consolidate and Reporting
• SME – Public Policy
• SME – Financial Solutions
• SME – Supply Chain Management
Contact information:
Paul_Young_CGA@Hotmail.com

3. SUMMARY
• This presentation focuses on a few key areas that Liberals were elected as
part of forming the government.
• Canada is now into year 2 of the Liberal plan as such many of the promises
the Liberal ran on during the election either have been broken or pushed
out like Marijuana.

4. SLOW GDP GROWTH
• http://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/justin-trudeaus-economic-promises-off-to-a-
sluggish-start/
If the Harper government’s vision of
economic success was balanced
budgets and pipelines full of crude
oil, Trudeau is striving to foster an
economy where future growth is
driven by big public infrastructure
investments and clever new
smartphone apps. The beating heart
of the Liberal plan stems from the
party’s unorthodox election
campaign promise to run deficits as
big as $10 billion for the next two
fiscal years to help pay for a doubling
of federal infrastructure spending to
$120 billion over the next decade

5. EMPLOYMENT
• Source – BMO Economics

6. MIDDLE CLASS
• https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/another-broken-promise-tax-cuts-for-the-middle-class/article33983657/
While these broken promises have
garnered some attention, yet
another broken promise has
managed to fly under the radar.
The Liberals campaigned on the
promise to cut taxes for Canada’s
middle class. Yet since forming
government, they have announced
several tax hikes and more may
be on the way.
The latest potential tax hike could
be higher user fees for a range of
federal services (including fish
licenses, campsites and
passports). That’s according to a
CBC report that suggests the
federal government is eyeing an
increase to these fees. If
implemented, this would be the
latest in the government’s
onslaught of tax increases on
Canadians.
Tax increase/fees
• Hikes to CPP
• Hikes to EI
• Elimination of
transit credits
• Elimination of
fitness credits,
textbooks and
other credits
• Many people did
not get a tax cut
• Child Benefit
program not
indexed
• Wages are not keeping pace with
inflation
• Goods producing sector is holding
the line to headcount increases

7. GOVERNMENT REVENUE AND SPENDING
• Fiscal Monitor – Government of Canada and http://www.torontosun.com/2016/11/02/harper-right-about-trudeaus-deficits
Toronto Sun – November 2, 2016

8. TRUDEAU FOREIGN POLICIES / NORTH KOREA
• http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/05/25/trump-trudeau-wave_n_16806700.html or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5zXZzGqZF4

9. ELECTORAL REFORM
• https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/trudeau-abandons-electoral-reform/article33855925/
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has broken a signature campaign promise by abandoning electoral
reform, sparking condemnation from his political opponents.
During the past campaign, Mr. Trudeau made the pledge to “make every vote count” and said his
party was committed to ensuring that the 2015 election would be the last under the first-past-the-
post voting system. Fair-voting advocates have long argued that the current system doesn’t
accurately reflect the will of the public, because it allows a party to win a majority of seats without
majority support from Canadians. The Liberal promise was part of a series of proposals that Mr.
Trudeau vowed would bring real change to Ottawa.

10. TRANSPARENCY AND OPENNESS TO
GOVERNMENT
• https://www.liberal.ca/openness-and-transparency/
Under Stephen Harper, the government has
grown secretive and closed-off from
Canadians. Unprecedented power has been
concentrated in the hands of the Prime
Minister and his office. Science and evidence
have never mattered less; politics and
partisanship have never mattered more.
Millions of Canadians who elected good
people to be their communities’ voice in
Ottawa have watched those same people
become Stephen Harper’s voice in their
communities. After promising reform, the
Conservatives have delivered the most
centralized, partisan, self-serving
government in Canadian history.
• Carbon Tax -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCyPc
Go-Gro&t=47s
• Fighter Gag order -
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/p
olitics/more-than-200-officials-forced-to-
sign-lifetime-gag-order-on-fighter-
jets/article33022432/
• PM changes to House -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFan
V3ngeUs&t=11s
• NDP on the Liberals -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DI9U
VbvxAc

11. OTHER SOURCES
• http://www.torontosun.com/2017/03/25/10-key-promises-trudeau-has-
broken-since-becoming-pm
• https://saultonline.com/2017/02/a-list-of-broken-trudeau-liberal-promises/
• http://globalnews.ca/news/3009595/justin-trudeau-campaign-promises-
kept-broken/