Trudeau's final weeks strike balance between cementing his legacy and managing a crisis

As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau works done what is apt to beryllium his past week successful office, helium and his authorities look to beryllium moving to cement his governmental legacy. 

Trudeau and his ministers person been making important announcements connected infrastructure, societal programs and reconciliation.

Trudeau has besides made caller planetary trips to the United Kingdom and Ukraine to sermon and show Canada's ongoing enactment for Ukraine and aboriginal relation successful planetary security.

All this has travel against a backdrop of starring the state done an economic, information and existential situation instigated by the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Randy Besco, a governmental subject prof astatine the University of Toronto, says that making announcements connected your mode retired the doorway is communal for outgoing premier ministers, arsenic is tying up escaped ends.

"One mode to look astatine it is: they are trying to cement a legacy. Another mode to look astatine it is: they mightiness suffer truthful they are trying to get a batch of worldly done. And that's besides a beauteous modular thing," helium told CBC News.

Here are immoderate of the large steps the Trudeau authorities has taken successful caller weeks to enactment up signature argumentation moves made implicit the past decade. 

Indigenous reconciliation

Trudeau has repeatedly said that there's nary narration "more important to Canada than the narration with Indigenous Peoples."

Over the past decennary he's made significant, though not perfect, progress toward his committedness to renew that relationship, and further reconciliation.

Those efforts saw Trudeau present apologies for the national government's past kid payment and residential schools policies, arsenic good arsenic assistance 147 semipermanent drinking advisories successful Indigenous communities. 

In his last weeks successful office, Trudeau and the Haida Nation reminded the state of that ngo by signing an statement recognizing Aboriginal rubric implicit the archipelago of Haida Gwaii disconnected British Columbia's bluish coast.

A week later, Trudeau announced that he'd struck a $270-million statement to enactment jobs and conservation projects successful the Qikiqtani portion of Nunavut.

"When we put to support [and] safeguard biodiversity, we support those who support us, our situation and our livelihoods," Trudeau told reporters.

On Thursday, the authorities announced a colony statement for survivors of federally tally Indian hospitals wherever claimants are eligible for up to $200,000.

Ukraine

While the contented of however to proceed enactment for Ukraine will autumn into the thigh of Canada's adjacent premier minister, Trudeau reminded the satellite successful caller weeks that helium is inactive beforehand and centre to dependable Canada's enactment for the country.  

Since Russia started its full-scale penetration of Ukraine, the national authorities says it has provided astir $20 cardinal successful subject and humanitarian enactment to the European nation.

Canada has besides provided beardown governmental and diplomatic support, sanctioning much than 3,000 radical and entities, and different 109 naval vessels that it says are successful immoderate mode participating successful the penetration of Ukraine. 

Trudeau has reinforced this fiscal and governmental enactment by visiting the state 4 times since the penetration began, including his latest trip on the three-year day of the invasion. 

Trudeau attended a acme successful Kyiv last month, successful which helium publically praised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's "remarkable idiosyncratic bravery, resilience and resolve." 

Earlier this month, Trudeau went to the United Kingdom wherever helium and different European leaders met successful London to sermon their ongoing enactment for the country.

Child care

In 2021, the national authorities announced a $30-billion, five-year child-care program to make 250,000 caller affordable spaces crossed the country. About 150,000 spaces person been created oregon funded truthful far. 

In the 2021 budget, the authorities said that of the $30 cardinal promised, $27.2 cardinal volition beryllium utilized to "bring the national authorities to a 50/50 stock of child-care costs with provincial and territorial governments."

In time, each of the provinces and territories signed connected to the deal, which was funded until 2026.

This week, Trudeau announced different five-year statement to widen the programme until March 2031. 

Trudeau said the $37-billion woody with 11 provinces and territories (Alberta and Saskatchewan person yet to motion on) volition assistance the provinces make different 100,000 spaces by this clip adjacent year.

The basal backing is besides being accrued by 3 per cent, per year, for 4 years starting successful 2027-28 successful bid to marque definite the programme tin support gait with rising costs.

Trudeau said the deals "will let this to fastener in, to go thing that nary government, a twelvemonth from now, 5 years from now, 20 years from now, could ever spell backmost on."

Pharmacare

A twelvemonth ago, Health Minister Mark Holland released the details of the Liberal government's pharmacare program that helium said would commencement retired by covering the costs of immoderate diabetes treatments. 

Delivering the programme was a information of the Liberal and NDP supply-and-confidence agreement. 

The Liberal authorities said the program besides gives the 9 cardinal Canadians of reproductive property amended entree to contraception to guarantee "reproductive autonomy, reducing the hazard of unintended pregnancies and improving their quality to program for the future."

The Pharmacare Act passed done Parliament and received royal assent successful October. Although it started providing lone constricted coverage, the program is to yet grow it into a broad nationalist pharmacare program. 

While the enabling authorities is in force, the programme needs provinces to motion on.

Late past month, Holland announced that Manitoba was the archetypal state to marque a deal. The national authorities volition supply the state with $219 cardinal successful backing implicit 4 years. 

On Thursday, B.C. became the 2nd state to motion on, inking a woody with the Liberal authorities worthy $670 cardinal implicit 4 years.

That was swiftly followed by Prince Edward Island, which signed a $30-million woody connected Friday.

School nutrient program

Canada is the lone G7 state that does not person a nationalist schoolhouse nutrient program, according to the Breakfast Club of Canada. 

Last April, the Liberal authorities announced it would walk $1 cardinal implicit 5 years to motorboat specified a program that it said would present 400,000 meals for children annually. 

Last year, Newfoundland and Labrador, Manitoba, Ontario and Prince Edward Island signed deals with the national authorities to enactment successful the program.  

New Brunswick, Nunavut and Nova Scotia signed their deals past month, and conscionable this week Quebec, B.C. and the Northwest Territories signed connected arsenic well. 

High-speed rail

Trudeau launched a six-year, $3.9-billion plan and improvement plan last period that helium said would yet link Quebec City and Toronto via a high-speed obstruction line.

Trudeau said the caller obstruction web volition tally all-electric trains on 1,000 kilometres of track, reaching speeds of up to 300 km/hour, with stops successful Toronto, Peterborough, Ottawa, Montreal, Laval, Trois-Rivières and Quebec City.

Transport Canada initially estimated that the outgo of specified a task could beryllium arsenic precocious arsenic $80 billion.

Multiple provincial and national governments person mused astir gathering high-speed rail, but Canada is inactive the lone G7 state without immoderate signifier of precocious velocity obstruction either successful cognition oregon nether development. 

Asked wherefore helium was launching a multi-year infrastructure task connected the eve of his departure from office, Trudeau said a task that ample would ever person to "cover aggregate governments … from municipal to provincial to federal."

"Obviously, aboriginal governments volition marque their determinations astir however they invest. But this concern successful Canadians, which starts close now, is going to beryllium precise hard to crook backmost on," Trudeau said.