Thinkers and political figures
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Justin Trudeau
- Country
- Canada
- Era
- b. 1971
- Tradition
- Social liberalism
Canadian prime minister for nine years, who legalised cannabis and assisted dying, introduced carbon pricing and a national childcare programme, and bought a pipeline to get one built.
01
Documented positions
Documented positions come from the sources listed. Similarity is this project’s inference from those positions, and is a much weaker claim.
- Legalised recreational cannabis nationally in 2018 and legislated for medical assistance in dying
- Introduced a national carbon price with revenue returned to households as rebates
- Established a national early learning and childcare programme aiming at ten dollars a day
- Purchased the Trans Mountain pipeline with public funds to ensure its expansion proceeded
- Raised the top marginal income tax rate and expanded the child benefit as an income-tested transfer
- Launched a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and committed to implementing UNDRIP
- Invoked the Emergencies Act in 2022 against the trucker convoy protests, later found unjustified by a Federal Court ruling
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Where it sits on each dimension
Wealth and inequality
34
RedistributionMarket outcomes
Evidence: Well documented
The state in the economy
44
Active stateLimited state
Evidence: Well documented
Personal liberty
60
Collective orderIndividual freedom
Evidence: Documented
Tradition and change
88
ContinuityReform
Evidence: Well documented
Nation and the world
24
InternationalistNationalist
Evidence: Well documented
Religion and the state
20
Secular stateReligion in public life
Evidence: Documented
Power and its limits
66
Concentrated authorityChecks and pluralism
Evidence: Documented
Environment and growth
74
Production firstProtection first
Evidence: Well documented
Crime and punishment
70
PunishmentRehabilitation
Evidence: Documented
Sources
- Parliament of Canada, Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act · 2018
- Liberal Party of Canada, Forward. For Everyone: Liberal Party Platform · 2021
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