'The Liberal government needs to lead again': What the Green party is hoping for in 2024
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As the 2024 political season gets underway, the federal Green party is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to prioritize a trio of objectives in the year ahead: affordability, federal-provincial collaboration, and international peace.
As the 2024 political season gets underway, the federal Green party is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to prioritize a trio of objectives in the year ahead: affordability, federal-provincial collaboration, and international peace.
Underpinning these goals, is a call from Green Party of Canada co-leaders Elizabeth May and Jonathan Pedneault for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to improve his leadership, coupled with a belief that the next election won't be called this year.
"The Liberal government needs to lead again, quite frankly. Canadians expect that, and demand, and need that from their government right now," Pedneault said.
Speaking to reporters on Parliament Hill a few weeks before the House of Commons kicks off its 2024 sitting, the duo raised alarms about income inequality and a rise of hate in Canada, the impact of climate change, disorder in federal-provincial relations, and the escalating world tensions as a result of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas wars.
"I know Justin Trudeau has hired people to give them a new narrative," May said, referencing the prime minister hiring experienced marketing guru Max Valiquette to be his new executive director of communications. "We suggest that the country needs to pull together, and that the narrative people want to see isn't a new story, but results."
Specifically on the Greens' wish list for 2024:
"We're seeing attacks on the federation from several provincial leaders and that is having a great impact on our collective ability as a country to fix the housing crisis, to fix the healthcare crisis, to fix the education crisis," Pedneault said. "That needs to be tackled in the same way that we need as part of a family of nations… to stand strong… in support of justice throughout the world."
