{"id":24842,"date":"2018-11-04T17:35:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T17:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=24842"},"modified":"2018-11-04T17:35:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T17:35:53","slug":"justin-trudeaus-first-three-years-in-office-could-his-ways-benefit-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/justin-trudeaus-first-three-years-in-office-could-his-ways-benefit-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Trudeau\u2019s first three years in office: Could his ways benefit The UK?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Justin Trudeau became the Prime Minister of Canada on November 4<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px\">,<\/span>\u00a02015, exactly three years ago today. In that time he has accomplished a lot and made various changes; both within the Canadian government and on a nationwide scale.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To commemorate the third anniversary of his time in office, here are the top three Trudeau-isms that would have a positive impact on the UK if borrowed by our government:<\/p>\n<h4>A gender-equal cabinet<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>In a world where politics is dominated by the men, Trudeau famously made sure his cabinet screams equality, because, in his words at the time, \u201cit\u2019s 2015!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The cabinet is exactly 50 percent male and 50 percent female<\/li>\n<li>At the Women in the World Summit in New York, Trudeau explained the background to his plan for gender equality in the cabinet: &#8220;Before it could be 2015, it had to be 2014, and 2013 and 2012, which were years in which I went out, and my team went out, and convinced great, successful women &#8212; community leaders or global leaders &#8212; to step up and run for politics in a very divisive time. It was really difficult.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>His \u201cAsk Her to Run\u201d campaign aimed to empower women to run for office as studies at the time showed that men were more willing to do so than women.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/CordeiroRick\/status\/1059088388077375488<\/p>\n<h4>Nation-wide legalisation of cannabis<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>On October 17<sup>th<\/sup> 2018, Canada became the second country (behind Uruguay) to fully legalise the recreational use of cannabis nation-wide.<\/li>\n<li>The medical use of cannabis in Canada had already been legal since as early as 2001 to treat conditions such as epileptic seizures, anorexia, and chronic pain.<\/li>\n<li>Studies show that legalising cannabis recreationally can result in a drop in crime rate and alcohol related deaths, while also creating an enormous amount of tax revenue.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/would-you-like-a-joint\/\">See also:\u00a0Would you like a joint?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Legalisation in Canada is a great step forward for cannabis science. The country&#39;s 129 licensed producers are looking to work with scientists on everything from gene mapping and metabolic engineering to optimal drying techniques and growing practises <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EkjTVzX5SJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/EkjTVzX5SJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; GROW\u00ae Group (@GrowGroupLtd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrowGroupLtd\/status\/1057898538011688960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Carbon tax<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>A new carbon tax (similar to Jamie Oliver\u2019s sugar tax) being implemented by Trudeau aims to help save the environment from man-made climate change by cutting down on carbon emissions.<\/li>\n<li>The tax is an effort to discourage people from using vehicles and machines that produce of high levels of carbon dioxide emissions, a fiscal nudge to cut down the nation&#8217;s carbon footprint.<\/li>\n<li>The Liberal party, of which Trudeau is the leader, has claimed it will be returning 90 percent of the taxes collected by this scheme directly back to Canadians.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Canada introduces carbon tax. Polluters must pay for the emissions impacting the climate. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rltpFD8TTP\">https:\/\/t.co\/rltpFD8TTP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeremy Buckingham (@BuckinghamJN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuckinghamJN\/status\/1056429679513665536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Now that Theresa May is also on her way to her third anniversary as prime minister (sworn in July 13, 2016), could she benefit from taking a leaf out of Justin Trudeau\u2019s book?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words: Georgia Hansen | Subbing: Memuna Konteh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Featured image:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/ajIlMYniI_Q?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Paul Weaver<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/search\/photos\/america?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Trudeau became the Prime Minister of Canada on November 4,\u00a02015, exactly three years ago today. In that time he has accomplished a lot and made various changes; both within the Canadian government and on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":24885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,75,114,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feminism-2","category-investigations","category-society","category-specials"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}