Implementing your agenda

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Purpose

Support a first discussion on your priorities for the implementation of your agenda:

  1. 1. Validate your implementation priorities over the short, medium, and longer term
  2. 2. Discuss decision points and considerations related to your priorities
  3. 3. Provide an overview of urgent issues requiring decision, as well as potential pressure points
  4. 4. Seek your views on proposed priority briefings

Launching your second mandate

Personal, team considerations:

  • Reconfirm arrangements for your family, office, security, transportation
  • Your transition team and PMO
  • Support from PCO

Foundations for second mandate:

  • Cabinet and machinery
  • Mandate letters
  • Opening Parliament*
  • Speech from the Throne
  • Key early appointments to make*

Relationship management:

  • Governor General
  • Premiers*
  • Indigenous leaders*
  • International leaders*
  • International travel and summits*

State of play:

  • Global and domestic context*
  • National security
  • Economic and fiscal situation
  • Urgent issues for decision*
  • Take stock of implementation of first mandate priorities

Validating your vision and agenda:

  • Your priorities, including what you want to achieve early in the mandate*
  • Big goals to reach by the end of the mandate

Implementing your agenda:

  • Cabinet forward agenda
  • Legislative agenda and managing Parliament
  • Budget and fiscal track
  • FPT relations/FMM*
  • Engaging with Canadians

Your platform

Top priorities in your 2019 platform…

… and an ambitious plan to build on the progress you accomplished in your first mandate:

Top priority #1: More money for the middle class

Validating your approach to priority implementation Prioritizing and sequencing of affordability-related measures will be key to an effective, phased-implementation:
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Opportunities to make early progress [ * ]

Top priority #2: Real action to address the climate crisis

Validating your approach to priority implementation [ * ]
Opportunities to make early progress [ * ]
Additional decisions required Determine measures to meet the legislated targets to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, including commitment to exceed your 2030 targets by introducing new carbon reducing measures

Top priority #3: Stronger gun control

Validating your approach to priority implementation [ * ]
Opportunity to make early progress [ * ]
Decisions required [ * ]

Other key decisions to launch your mandate

Priorities and timing for the next
First Ministers’ Meeting(s)
Review of government spending
and tax expenditures
  • You committed to host a FMM on First Nations, Inuit and Métis Nation priorities
    • opportunity for a conversation with PTs on implementing ongoing initiatives [ * ]
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  • Your platform also identifies a number of priorities to be advanced in collaboration with provinces and territories, including:
    • health care and pharmacare [ * ]
    • child care
  • Confirmation of your approach to conducting the comprehensive review of government spending and tax expenditures
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Legislative priorities (with advice from the Government House Leader):

Confirm level of ambition in key policy areas

Approach to implementing universal pharmacare:

  • Approach to implementing universal pharmacare

Digital, data and online platforms:

  • Approach to implementing digital charter and whether to regulate online platforms

International:

  • Next phase of Canada’s foreign, defence and international development policies

Veterans:

  • Automated approvals
  • Backlog, pension for life

Indigenous peoples:

  • MMIWG calls for justice and TRC calls to action
  • Long-term, predictable and sufficient funding to fully implement Indigenous languages and child and family services legislation
  • Investments required for Indigenous health and infrastructure legislation
  • Implementation of UNDRIP legislation
  • National Treaty Commissioner’s Office
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  • Advancing other priorities of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Nation

Continued implementation of decisions from last mandate

Implement components of bills adopted at the end of last session, including:
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Advance implementation on key files:
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Response to reviews/reports, including:
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Urgent decisions, pressures and watchlist

Urgent decisions (required within first 60 days):

  • Managing the agenda:
    • FMM(s) – when, where and what
    • Immigration levels plan
    • Investment Canada Act case
    • Journalism
    • Third shipyard
  • International:
    • International travel
    • CUSMA/Brexit
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    • World Bank replenishment
    • IMO proposal: ban heavy fuel oil in Arctic
  • Funding:
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  • Appointments:
    • Auditor General
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Pressures Watchlist
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  • 100 Wellington – Indigenous peoples space
  • Vaping
  • Future fighter capability project
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  • Strategic transportation (aircraft)
  • Francophone university in Ontario
  • Collective bargaining
  • Legacy IT systems
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Suggested priority policy briefings

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