- Trudeau is trying to be the first “post-Laurentian Liberal”.
- Laurentian elite: “The whispers in the common rooms at Queens, the easy murmurings at the Rideau Club, the things that happen in a cafeteria at the Place du Portage civil service benevolent society meeting” that way of doing business is gone.
- Trudeau is out of that world/group.
- That electoral coalition is out of his mind map. He is more attuned to young people and new Canadian communities.
- We’re not even going back to the Martin coalition.
- Trudeau: next, post, onward, forward.
- A post-Laurentian world need not be a Conservative one.
- Harper govt. operates with 21% of all men women and children, Harper governments never feel like a majority (they govern like they have to exert force and pressure in order to pass their agenda).
- “The middle class hasn’t got a raise in 25/30 years”.
- There’s great potential in the new supply chains for Canada’s traditional manufacturing communities to get back in the game (with support from governments).
- The future could look like Japan where young people are working their hearts out to provide for the old. It’s not which Canada you want, it’s which Japan you want.
- The question of energy and resources has become big since the 1970’s. We’re going to see more and more issues and political forms pertaining to energy.
- This as opposed to the typical 20th century political divide over the role of govt. in the economy (socialism vs. capitalism).
- “Technopolitics”: a clash between urban and rural. “Green” appeals to urban voters from progressive parties. Offerings to rural voters from conservatives put the environment on the back seat (Keystone, Gateway, drilling etc.). The vastness of the disagreement between urban and rural implies “the eclipse of the rural value system built around self-reliance”. It’s an argument about modernity.
- A scientific/evidence basis for policy is a loose term that the Liberals are running with but it represents something much deeper. The regulation of biotech, the politics of science and technology, the vast explosion of tech etc. are an enormous challenge to our society relative to our tiny attention span.
- Cites Shimon Peres: science/tech are fundamentally ungoverned and more important than politics. The young people are all about science/tech and you should become a scientist or entrepreneur if you really want to make a difference.
- Politics is catching up one buzzword at a time.
- On tech questions there tends to be a pro-producer and a pro-consumer viewpoint (GMO labeled on packaging for ex.). When it comes to technology a rural evangelical voter won’t necessarily take the pro-business, pro-producer argument.
- It’s way more important how technology is governed vs. 2% more or less on whatever tax.
- Andrew Coyne: It’s about technology understood as an existential question vs. lots of actually technological innovation (which isn’t happening).
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