Good article by Karl on Parl: http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/karl-nerenberg/2016/01/trudeaus-supporte...
Condensed version below:
To say that Justin Trudeau is merely Stephen Harper lite, that the new prime minister is doing nothing more than putting a human face on the old one's policies is not only unfair, it is wrong in fact.
On the basis of the evidence so far we are seeing a huge sea change from the Harper regime.
That hardly means, however, that the new government is beyond criticism.
And as much as there are some who want to oversimplify things by saying that Trudeau is Harper with a smile, there are too many others who will brook absolutely not a single critical word about the new government.
It appears that a lot of Canadians feel an almost parental need to shelter and protect the new, young prime minister, with all of his sunny ways. They seem to feel that he and his government are somehow fragile and vulnerable, and might melt in the face of even the most limited and measured criticism.
This writer experienced that over-the-top need to protect when he had the temerity to say that the single legislative measure the Trudeau government passed during the House's one-week sitting in December was not really the middle class tax cut it was advertised to be.
This government has a big majority and it is riding high in public esteem. One would think it would be resilient enough enough to handle this kind of constructive and fact-based criticism.
And those who honestly criticize, when criticize they must, are not trying to injure a fragile rookie team in need of coddling and protection. They are just trying to lay out the facts.
We certainly see this everywhere
