Entry #7 November 6th

How Justin Trudeau picked his new cabinet: Hepburn

By: Bob Hepburn Politics, Published on Sun Nov 01 2015

Overview:

Since Justin Trudeau and the liberals majority win with 184 seats on October 19th election, people said it would be very difficult for Trudeau to pick his cabinet from the “abundance of riches”, but as it turned out, it was said to be quite easy. It is said that Justin has already picked his team of just 28 members, compared to last year’s cabinet from Harper consisting of 39 members, Trudeau says he wants to run a leaner, more efficient cabinet than his post rival. Justin will have his team released on November 4th, 2015, showing the people he felt should be a part of. When deciding his cabinet, he looked for a few main factors which included the size of the cabinet, gender equality, ethnic equality, regional distribution and a balance of new and old MP’s, leaning more to the young and new rather than old. When Trudeau released that his cabinet will consist of 14 men and 14 women, many people were quickly asking questions for obvious reasons. People were asking why instead of trying to make it equal in genders, why he couldn’t just pick the top 28 most qualified people for the job to make sure that it’s the best it can be. These 28 people are also all spread out around Canada coming from the western area, to central and all the way to the east coast in Atlantic Canada. People don’t know how Trudeau’s decisions in picking the cabinet will go, the people of Canada can only wait and hope for the best. 

Above is memeber of the new cabinet

My opinion:

In my opinion I don’t necessarily agree with Trudeau when he selected half females and half males because what happens on some cases is that maybe there is a more qualified person out there who didn’t get the job because there would be an unequal amount of either males or female. By selecting only 28 members instead of last year’s 39 members, that’s 11 less members which means that when selecting your cabinet you would need to pick the best ones because of the less spots. I feel that this year’s cabinet will do well, but it may not do as well as it could have if the sexes were not equal, again due to the loss of the better cabinet person. I see where Trudeau is coming from wanting to pick equal numbers because of the society now a days but at the end of the day you want what’s best for your country, and by doing this you may not get the cabinets full potential. 

Entry #6, Finsihed October 20th

Canada’s budding marijuana industry could blossom into a $5-billion market if Liberals make recreational pot legal

Peter Koven | October 20, 2015 | Last Updated: Oct 21 12:01 PM ET

Overview:

Justin Trudeau’s majority win in the past election, makes a clear path for Canada to legalize marijuana. Although marijuana in Canada is illegal, there are a few licensed dealers that provide the substance to over 35,000 people who use it for treatment (medical marijuana). Health Canadas medical marijuana program is estimated between $80-100 million dollars. If it is legalized to the public, the estimated price could run the market price to upwards of $5 billion dollars. This causes problems for the licensed dealer’s as they think I will lower their worth of the company. Oregon and Colorado who have already legalized pot and they say since the law was passed the prices have not dropped. Besides the business part of things, they are saying that they will raise the punishment for users driving under the influence of the substance, as well as higher the punishment to any person selling it to minors. This makes sense as it would hopefully keep everyone in line. Trudeau says that legalizing pot will reduce the amount of arrests to people who have small quantities of the substance when it is illegal mainly because he says that it is not a serious offence and police could be stopping worse things from happening. Even though it is still early, you can expect a law being passed about the legalization of marijuana within the next few months.

 In the piture above is just Justin Trudeau next to his substance he wants to legalize. 

Opinion- Since I do not known much about the business side and the money problem for organizations, I’m going to write my opinion on the new punishments with marijuana and what I think about legalizing it. If Trudeau decides to legalize his substance I think it may be better for the government, users and police around the country. In the past if someone had this substance and was caught, police had to use action and waste time on this person rather than stopping someone from doing something way worse. With this legalized, it will reduce the amount of police trying to stop these people and getting away from actually working for the people and helping them. This will be better for users and the public for many reasons, one being to help them. Some people believe that cannabis helps them with the problems they have so they can now to that legally. This is better for the government because they can now tax people off the substance and get money from people buying it.  For the punishment side, I agree with making the consequences worse such as selling to minors or driving under the influence. In my opinion if they want to legalize this substance, then the users should follow the new laws and regulations that apply with this and understand and agree with the new consequences. So with all being said, in my opinion legalizing marijuana is a good thing for Canada.