The first order of business for PM Trudeau is financial help to immediately build an all-weather road to the Shoal Lake Reservation, then re-establish election fairness by replacing the individual candidate funding that Harper cancelled for no good reason except to win the next election.
Immediately change the first past the post system to one promised by the Liberals, NDP and Greens, or institute a combination of both types in time for 2019, compromise being the key word.
Fund the Chief Electoral Office and give it complete independence then cancel voting regulations recently legislated to disenfranchise minorities, especially the poor.
Restore the long form census, lift the gag order on scientists, and initiate whistleblower legislation for public servants. Clearly, after recent events, B.C. also needs this. And bar omnibus bills!
Most importantly limit the power of the Prime Minister's Office by giving all MP's access to PMO meetings, discussions, emails, and trade negotiations.
Remember MP's are elected - the prime minister is only the anointed head of a group of people with similar interests as is the cabinet. Ultimate power rests and should be with the MPs.
Restoring funding to CBC should be a priority. In a book on the Chinese crackdown in Tiananmen square in 1989 there are many references by the students to what they termed essential moral support given to them in their quest for democracy by CBC, its reporters in the country, as well as to the BBC and Voice of America. To me, as a Canadian, it was a rare politically uplifting story.
Remember, a new leader may re-energize the Conservative party.
Ascendent parties need to act quickly as voters in the internet age are quickly spooked into change. The NDP surge in Alberta, their collapses in B.C. and Quebec, and the federal Liberals re-emergence, all support that statement.
Politicians think ahead to the next election, statesmen think of the next generation.
Clearly Canadians demanded a statesman as prime minister. Trudeau should be wary, not overconfident, of his mandate.
Alan Martin
Prince George
