Liberal Party

Liberal Party
By: Heather

Highlights from the past

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The Liberals are descended from the mid-19th century Reformers who agitated for
responsible government throughout British North America

These included George Brown, Robert Baldwin, William Lyon Mackenzie and the Clear Grits in
Upper Canada

The Clear Grits and Parti rouge sometimes functioned as a united bloc in the legislature of the
Province of Canada beginning in 1854

United Liberal Party combining both English and French Canadian members was formed in 1861.

19th century

Current leader
Justin Trudeau

Some facts about him are:

1. Born: December 25, 1971 (age 44), Ottawa, Canada
2. Height: 6 2
3. Spouse: Sophie Grgoire Trudeau (m. 2005)
4. Education: University of British Columbia (1998), More
5. Parents: Pierre Trudeau, Margaret Trudeau

6. Children: Xavier James Trudeau, Ella-Grace Margaret Trudeau, Hadrien Trudea

Issues with the Liberal Government

1.

The budget

2.

Withdrawing Canadian fighter jets from the U.S.-led bombing campaign in Syria and Iraq

3.

Resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2015 and another 15,000 by the end of February two
months later than originally promised

4.

Meeting with premiers and territorial leaders by mid-March to hammer out a detailed national climate
change strategy

5.

Develop a nation-to-nation relationship with indigenous peoples and work in partnership to improve
housing, infrastructure, health care, child welfare, education and community policing, as promised in the
campaign

6.

Pass a new law that recognizes the right of clearly consenting adults who are enduring intolerable physical
or mental suffering to seek medical help in ending their lives.

7.

Fill 22 vacancies in the scandal-plagued Senate.

8.

Deliver on Trudeau's promise that the 2015 election will be the last under the first-past-the-post electoral