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Association canadienne de science politiqueProgramme du congrès annuel de l'ACSP 2025
Les politiques d’appartenance : conflit,
communauté, curriculum
Organisé au Collège George Brown, Toronto, CANADA
3 juin au 5 juin 20252025 Annual Conference Programme
The Politics of Belonging: Conflict,
Community, Curriculum
Hosted at George Brown College
June 3 to June 5, 2025
Économie politique
G17 - ROUNDTABLE Book panel – The Trudeau Record: Promise v. Performance
Date: Jun 5 | Heure: 10:15am to 11:45am | Salle:
Chair/Président/Présidente : Laura Macdonald (Carleton University)
Pat Armstrong (York University)Hugh Armstrong (Carleton)
Paula Maurutto (University of Toronto)
Christina Gabriel (Carleton)
Nisha Nath (Athabasca University)
Susan Prentice (University of Manitoba)
Katherine Scott (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives)
Abstract: This roundtable will provide insights from this book published in 2024 by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Lorimer Press. The Trudeau government came into office promising a wholly different government from the combative rein of Stephen. The new government deliberately set a very high bar for itself. No government, of course, fulfils every promise it makes to voters at election time. And unplanned events derail the best of intentions. The Trudeau government had its fair share of those – including a global pandemic and the election of now two Trump administrations committed to upending the rules-based international order and long-term alliances. But, looking back on the Trudeau government’s performance over the past nine years—with the exception of major policy achievements such as the Canada Child Benefit, the 2021 child care deal, renewed investment in housing, and efforts to reframe the Crown’s relations with Indigenous peoples—this government has consistently overcommitted and underdelivered. The book provides a systematic overview of the government of Justin Trudeau since he came to office in 2015. On this roundtable, authors of chapters in the book critically evaluate the government’s record on such issues as immigration, Canada-US relations, childcare, gender politics, race and racial justice, health care and drug policy.