.althiaraj: If Justin Trudeau had kept his promises, would this Liberal MP be leaving Ottawa? via torontostar
, telling young people that the country and Liberal party needed their passion, their idealism and their ideas.
Even before their policy proposals were debated on the floor of the convention, Trudeau shot one of them down in a scrum — a resolution from the Quebec wing that the party develop a clear path to balanced budgets. “What is most important to me is to create a strong and resilient economy, in which we can continue to invest and create good jobs,” he said.
It’s easy to shrug off a party’s policy process. The resolutions are non-binding and often more far-fetched than the general electorate is ready to accept. Even after the Liberal party adopted legalizing cannabis as a policy in 2012, for example, Trudeau wasn’t ready to embrace the idea. But if a party is serious about giving its members a voice and listening to concerns from different parts of the country, resolutions offer that opportunity. And for some, they really matter.
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