It's reboot time in Trudeauland.

In response to growing anxiety in the party caucus and declining polling numbers, Justin Trudeau's Liberals are revamping their campaign strategy, putting out stronger platform measures on an advanced timetable.

On Tuesday, the Liberals will release, ahead of schedule, what they are describing as a comprehensive plan to fix a broken Ottawa. They're not calling it democratic reform because they sense – correctly – that people's eye glaze over at the phrase. Rather, they say it's more like an overhaul aimed at convincing voters disgusted at the autocratic way Ottawa works under the Conservatives that respectable democratic governance can be restored.

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Among a slew of reforms they are putting forward are measures to bring down the information barricades put up by the Tories, electoral reforms, and initiatives that restore power to the legislative branch to check the all-powerful Prime Minister's Office.

The Liberals are also drafting a 100-day action plan. It will lay out a series of bold measures a Liberal government would take in its first three months in power. The party hierarchy didn't want news of this out yet, but in an interview a caucus member spoke of the plan that a strategist later confirmed. Lester Pearson used a similar scheme in his victorious campaign for the Liberals in 1963.

In addition, the Liberals will soon announce a major component of their economic growth agenda, it being their infrastructure-spending plan. They tout this as being the mother of all infrastructure plans.

On foreign affairs, Mr. Trudeau will soon put forward his ideas for repairing Canada-U.S. relations. A trip to New York is in the works for next month.

The schedule for policy releases has been moved up because the party realizes that the NDP has been making big gains in convincing Canadians it is the real party of change and that this has to be reversed before it is too late.

There's been grumbling in the Liberal caucus over what members feel is an overcautious approach by Liberal strategists since last fall, when the party led in the opinion polls. Senior strategists dispute the inertia charge. They point to the leader's plan to raise taxes on the rich and give the proceeds to the middle class as well as his Canada Child benefit. They cite the leader's McGill University speech on liberties and his telling the oil patch it has to put a price on carbon and his earlier Senate reform, ending Liberal Party affiliation with the Red Chamber.

These reforms combined with Tuesday's new democracy vision and other measures on the way, such as a major policy release on the environment and on education, will prove to Canadians, the Trudeau team insists, that they are the most progressive alternative to the Conservatives.

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But the NDP has been more effective – a point the strategists concede – in getting its message out. Part of the Liberals' problem, they argue, has been bad timing. The day of the Trudeau climate speech, the Supreme Court of Canada issued a landmark ruling on assisted suicide, overshadowing that address. The day after they released their tax cut plan, the Alberta election overwhelmed the news cycle. Realizing that election might have had that kind of impact, they should have held off on their tax program announcement but chose not to. To focus more attention on their tax plan, they have made what they call the biggest precampaign ad buy in Liberal history.

If – and it's a big if – it has enough teeth, their platform for a democratic overhaul of Ottawa could pay off. The image of Prime Minister Stephen Harper as an autocratic bully has increasingly become a burden for the Tories, who have plummeted in public support since the previous election from 40 per cent to 27 per cent in the latest poll. No less than seven books on how the system has been broken have been published since last fall, the latest being Les Whittington's Spinning History and Mel Hurtig's The Arrogant Autocrat.

The Conservatives are in need of a reset, too, but the heat is especially on the Liberals. The battle with the NDP to decide which party best represents change is in full throttle. Mr. Trudeau has been losing that battle. The changes in strategy are overdue.