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Just like rapper Lil Nas X singing that he was riding to the Old Town Road in this year’s biggest song hit to escape the world behind him, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rode to Parliament Hill on his own horse promising Canadians a new political order, leaving behind what he campaigned against was a tired, old guard.

A new day was promised to us in 2015 when Trudeau got elected. No more grumpiness, which he characterized as the personality of outgoing prime minister Stephen Harper. This was the era of Sunny Ways.

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Merit-based appointments to the public service and the judiciary would bring back credibility to the selection process which was apparently lost during the Harper years.

Gone would be the first-past-the-post voting system in favour of a new, fairer way to elect federal politicians.

Then Trudeau would abandon the practice of using omnibus bills to ram simultaneous amendments through on unrelated bills. Instead, bills would be introduced and debated democratically and on their own merits.