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Canada

Justin Trudeau

In office

Prime Minister

Liberal Party of Canada

2,736 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The Trudeau government had originally made 569 promises in its 2021 campaign platform and press releases.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

Economy and Employability

44th Parliament of Canada

3.03.57 - “A re-elected Liberal government will […] [m]ove forward with a national tax on vaping products and require tobacco manufacturers to pay for the cost of federal public health investments in tobacco control”

Forward. For Everyone.

Published: Nov 2021

“In 2023-24, new or on-going measures related to tobacco will include: […] Proposing a framework to require tobacco manufacturers to pay for the cost of federal public health investments in tobacco control”

2023–24 Departmental Plan: Health Canada-Health Canada

Published: Mar 2023

Justification

The tax was implemented on October 1, 2022.

“A vaping product licensee who packages vaping products manufactured in Canada on or after October 1, 2022 must pay the applicable vaping duty. The vaping duty is payable at the time of packaging”

Excise duty for vaping products-Government of Canada

Published: Dec 2022

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“The federal government also invites its provincial and territorial counterparts to join a coordinated vaping taxation framework, under which an additional duty equal to the proposed federal rate would be applied. Total resulting revenues would be split between federal and provincial and territorial governments on a 50/50 basis. The overall tax burden on vaping products will be regularly reviewed to ensure that important public health objectives are being met”