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Canada

Justin Trudeau

In office

Prime Minister

Liberal Party of Canada

3,267 days in office

42nd Parliament of Canada
03 Dec 2015 - 11 Sep 2019

43rd Parliament of Canada
05 Dec 2019 - 15 Aug 2021

44th Parliament of Canada
22 Nov 2021 - Present

The Canadian federal election of 2021 (officially the 44th Canadian general election) took place on September 20, 2021, and elected members of the House of Commons to Canada’s 44th Parliament. The Liberal Party, led by outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, won 160 seats, forming a second consecutive minority government.

The Trudeau government had originally made 569 promises in its 2021 campaign platform and press releases. This number was reduced to 352 by an extensive, multi-coder process of sorting promises according to their degree of precision and importance to society. Unclear and less important promises were removed from the analysis.

For an analysis of the achievements of Justin Trudeau’s first government (2015-2019), see Birch and Pétry (2019), Assessing Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Government. 353 promises and a mandate for change, published by Les Presses de l’Université Laval.

In partnership with

Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (CSDC)

Center for Public Policy Analysis (CAPP)

Leadership Chair in the Teaching of Digital Social Sciences (CLESSN)

Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC)

Promise History

International Affairs and Defence

44th Parliament of Canada

1.01.023 - “We will prioritize assistance for civilian police training operations, particularly Francophone officers, who are in great demand in French-speaking countries with peace operations.”

A New Plan for a Strong Middle Class

Published: Dec 2015

Justification

The available data from the RCMP, Global Affairs Canada and Public Security show that Canada has some current missions where the French language is the main language of engagement. The only new police-training mission is in Mali, with 5 officers deployed. Given the general promise in the 2015 election of bringing Canada back onto the international scene in peacekeeping missions, this level of engagement falls short of expectations created by the discourses surrounding the new direction in foreign policy pledged by the Liberals. Currently, there are 14 UN peace operations including Haiti, Lebanon, Mali, the Central African Republic and the Western Sahara. Canada is only involved in Mali and does not figure among the top 10 contributors. Therefore, we consider this promise as broken.

Published: Sep 2019