Did you vote Liberal in 2015? Less excited to do so this time around? Well Justin Trudeau is here to buy your vote
Ahoy there, relatively young and middle-class Canadian! Did you vote Liberal in 2015? And are you, shall we say, somewhat less enthused about that prospect four years later, for various reasons we needn’t go into here?Well, that’s just the kind of guy he is.
There’s also the new Canada Training Benefit, which the government intends to help Canadians with “the evolving nature of work.” Starting in 2020, the feds will chip in $250 a year, and you can use the accumulated credit to pay up to half the cost of courses or training. And you can draw on up to four weeks of EI to complete it.
The relevant section of the 2019 budget begins with the words “clean, safe drinking water.” There’s $739 million extra over six years to end every First Nation’s boil-water advisory by 2021; $1.3 billion over six years to forgive debts First Nations have amassed during land claim negotiations; $1.2 billion for “continuing implementation of Jordan’s Principle,” which is to say actually providing First Nations children the sort of health and social services that most of us take for granted.
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