Trudeau: 'It's me sitting here as PM of Canada and not Stephen Harper'
Trudeau on the middle class
"The core of the message that we put forward from the very beginning of not just the election, but for my run for the leadership of the Liberal Party, was a recognition….that’s there’s a wide swath of people in the middle of the income spectrum for whom the idea of progress…doesn’t seem to hold….
"What we’ve seen in the past 30 years is a flat-lining of median income for the middle class and that means people don’t feel like this idea of progress holds, that our kids would be better off than we would.
"We challenged the orthodoxy that was there with the other two parties - certainly the conservative party but also the other progressive party, who said we want to be fiscally responsible so we’re going to balance the budget at any cost. For us, it didn’t make any sense to balance the budget at any cost….We went out and challenged head-on the right-wing’s contention that you need to balance the budget no matter what and Canadians agreed with us, that a confident optimistic country invests in their future."
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