During the spring campaign, Prime Minister Mark Carney promised that a re -elected liberal government led by him would move quickly to solve problems and face challenges for Canada’s day.
After their victory, those promises left Carney a little more than 60 days to address the problems that have attacked previous governments, in some cases, for a long time.
Here is a look at the promises that Carney did while courting the electorate, how he has done so when they approach and what comes next.
Eliminate internal federal commercial barriers
After becoming prime minister, but before the elections, Carney organized a meeting with the prime ministers at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.
The March 21 meeting focused on a dominant issue: responding to the existential and political threat presented by the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
Carney told journalists that he would address this challenge when addressing the long -standing issue of the internal commercial barriers of Canada; Some economists have said that eliminating them could boost Canada’s economy at $ 200 billion annually.
“We intend, from a federal level, have free trade on Canada’s day”, Passy said.
In his first meeting with the prime ministers of Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney pressed to expand free trade within Canada and the important investments in east-west pipes to further isolate the economy of the dependence of the United States in the midst of the growing commercial war.
The prime minister specified “from a federal level” because most of the internal commercial barriers of Canada are restrictions that only the provinces can eliminate.
Some have already begun this process, with Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador and Pei signing agreements or working with other provinces to eliminate barriers.
Carney’s promise to have “Free Trade by Canada Day” changed slightly when the party platform was launched on April 19.
He said that a government led by Carney would simply “unleashed free trade in Canada for Canada’s day presenting legislation to eliminate all federal barriers for interprovincial trade and labor mobility and eliminate all federal exceptions under the Canadian free trade agreement.”
The bill C-5, which approved Parliament on Thursday, will do exactly that.
Verdict: promise maintained
Cutting taxes
In the Tax Front, Carney promised to make Canada more affordable canceling the carbon tax, reducing income tax and eliminating the GST for housing buyers for the first time in properties of less than $ 1 million.
In the early hours of becoming prime minister on March 14, Carney signed a directive of the prime minister who eliminates the price of consumer over carbon, a change of policy that entered into force on April 1.
The commitment to reduce the income tax rate at a percentage point, a 6.6 percent cut to the amount of taxes paid in that group, came with the promise that would go into force for Canada’s day.
The three measures were included in a way in ways and means that passed the House of Commons on June 5. The motion allows the government to begin to make changes in the fiscal code before they are laws, but a bill must still be approved.
The bill that contains the new measures, C-4He was presented to the House of Commons in May and approved the second reading on June 12.
Verdict: promise maintained
Joining Rearm Europe
Carney said that since she became Prime Minister, her government has been talking to the European Union to join her rearme plan, Rearm Europe, to change the way Canada supplies her military.
“Seventy -five cents of each dollar of capital spending for defense go to the United States. That is not intelligent,” Carney He told CBC’s Power and politics Host David Cochrane May 27.
Prime Minister Mark Carney said during an individual interview with Power & Politics David Cochrane on Tuesday who has had ‘growing specificity’ conversations with the main European partners about Canada as part of a construction of his industrial defense base. Carney said he wants to see ‘something concrete there’ for Canada’s day.
In that same interview, Carney also said he wanted to “see something concrete” on that front on Canada’s day.
After meeting with EU leaders on June 23, Carney announced that he had signed a strategic defense and security association agreement with the union.
While it is progress, it is not perfection. The agreement is more a framework on how Canada will eventually participate in Rourardm Europe.
The agreement signed on June 23 will also help Canada to join the safe loan program with other allied nations to buy military equipment.
Verdict: It is a step towards the door, but not through it.
Cutting bureaucracy
The liberal electoral platform promised to “reduce bureaucracy” by demanding all federal departments to take measures to eliminate “obsolete or unnecessary rules, reduce duplication or overlap with provincial rules and optimize the administration of rules and the delivery of regulatory decisions.”
The platform says that the departments are supposed to make these reviews “within 60 days” and report what progress has been made.
The office of the Prime Minister (PMO) said that the process is being supervised by the Treasury Board that told CBC News that it is “preparing to launch the formal 60 -day review process” and that there will be details to share “brief.”
The platform does not specifically say within 60 days after the gain of the elections, but the term “within 60 days” could be considered exactly that. It could also mean that the PMO wants the reviews to take 60 days once they are finally launched.
Verdict: The ambiguous writing leaves this in limbo.
That comes later
The list of challenges and promises that Carney must address below is long and varied. Here is a look at some who will continue to reach the headlines in the coming months.
Continuing with a deal with Trump on the rates: During the G7, Carney and Trump summit they agreed to negotiate towards a commercial agreement “in the next 30 days.” Carney made that announcement on June 16.
Approving bill C-4: Although fiscal measures have been adopted in C-4, the legislation still has to go through Parliament.
Pass the bill C-2: The strong edge law of the liberal government would give greater powers to the security and intelligence services of Canada, would expand the ability to open and inspect the mail and allow officials to cancel or suspend immigration documents. Critics of the bill say that it violates privacy. Liberals will have to administer those concerns if they want this bill, currently in second reading, it becomes law.
Approving bill C-8: The Law of Protection of Cyber Systems of Liberals is a reintroduction of the bill C-26 that died when former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Porogue Parliament. C-8 passed the first reading in the house on June 18.
Pass the bill C-3: Entted to the Chamber of the Commons on June 5, the bill “Lost Canadians” is also a reintroduction of a previous bill. The legislation responds to a ruling from the Superior Court of Ontario of 2023 that declared unconstitutional to deny citizenship to people born outside Canada before their parents obtained citizenship. It is in second reading at home.
