Canadian History: Year and Canadian

canadian history: The contrast was as sharp as the clear autumn air, according to The Waterloo Record. A year later, pollsters say the effervescent weightlessness has yet to dissipate. "It a year and honeymoons don't last a year," Frank Graves of Ekos Research told The Canadian Press. "I don't recall a period in Canadian history where a government has flown that high for that long — particularly with the backdrop of what are the worst economic outlook numbers I've seen in 20 years." A campaign that began in the dog days of summer with headlines about spending caps, televised debate negotiations, third-party advertising and attack ads ended on deeper questions of religious and ethnic accommodation, a conscious return to deficit spending and an overtly activist state. Eleven weeks later, Canadian voters jumped off a cliff, electing a surprise Liberal majority led by the ebullient and youthful Justin Trudeau who marched his new cabinet up that same Rideau Hall driveway through a crush of cheering crowds. Since then, "government is good" has been the predominant theme. Whether the 2015 election marked a fundamental values shift is the question all Canada political practitioners now are grappling with, especially in this summer marked by terrorism, Britain shocking referendum exit from the European Union, U.S. racial strife, the rise of trade protectionism and the immigrant-bashing Donald Trump. From committing billions to indigenous issues, rushing in Syrian refugees, schmoozing with the premiers, vowing to price carbon emissions, legislating doctor-assisted death, restoring the mandatory long-form census, re-funding civil society, tackling fundamental electoral reform and consulting, consulting, consulting, the Liberals are wading in where the previous government often withdrew. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.