The First Taste of Liberal Promises
I'm only half done, but so far, 91% of promises go unfulfilled or failed
I am currently plowing away at the tool for tracking this government’s promises, and working on it with the help of my colleagues, Aedan and Eliot. Hopefully soon I’ll have it done for you all. I have done about 150 of the promises that the Liberal givernment has given us. I have categorized everything into a few categories, and am adding commentary and some links to some of them.
Fulfilled— Y (Front to back done)
Not addressed— N (No announcements, no beginning.)
Promised— P (Started, but not fully seen through)
Failed— F (Abjectly failed the process or the promised timeline.)
Of the first 150 things:
the most prominent finding is the percentage breakdown itself: 9.32% of the checklist items were ‘Fulfilled’ (Y), while 90.68% are ‘Not Addressed’ (N), ‘Promised’ (P), or ‘Failed’ (F).
The 90.68% figure is overwhelmingly composed of the ‘Not Addressed’ (N) category, which accounted for 88 of the 118 items, or 74.58% of the total checklist. This is logical, seeing as the government has only been in power since May. I would not expect more than this to have been done. My worry, in the early stages of development, is that some of these extremely ambitious goals that are in here will not be addressed at all because the government is unlikely to last more than 18 months or 2 years.
The 11 items ‘Fulfilled’ (Y) were almost exclusively large, new, multi-billion dollar fiscal announcements that aligned with the budget’s core stated themes. Even then, it was never as well ‘fulfilled’ as I would have liked to see. The core problem is that they are not making generational investments like they promised. In fact, if they mad a bad investment, like their useless $5 billion into health infrastructure, I decided they deserved an F. Five billion is hardly a down payment on three projects.
Not addressed items were often things that haven’t had time to stew, or things that I suspect will be ignored in the long term. I only gave four or five things a fail, but the fact that the government didn’t address many of these items in their budget is alarming. This government is in danger of hyping themselves up constantly, and failing to address the needs of Canadians.
I will have the list released as soon as I can, but for now that is the overview.