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Indeed, Trudeau has argued it’s not the leader’s role to hand down commandments from on high to grassroots Liberals. Instead, he’s promised that if he becomes leader, he would develop the party’s platform from the bottom up, based on consultations from Liberals in particular and Canadians in general.

During the leadership campaign, Trudeau launched a “soapbox” feature on his website in a bid to encourage policy input from average folks.

“This campaign is about conversations, not one-way monologues,” he said on the site. “We believe that good ideas can come from any corner, and that Canadians deserve the opportunity to share their concerns and offer up their ideas.”

Still, on some select issues, Trudeau has offered some glimpses of where he’d take the party, and the country, if given the chance:

— Democratic reform: Trudeau unveiled a detailed five-point plan aimed at making Canada’s electoral system more representative of Canadians’ choices and MPs more responsive to the views of their constituents. It includes:

– Requiring all prospective Liberal candidates, including incumbent MPs, to win the right to carry the party banner during an election through open nomination contests.

– Empowering backbenchers by loosening party discipline, allowing Liberal MPs to vote as they see fit on everything except bills implementing elements of the party’s 2015 election platform, budget or significant money bills, and “those that speak to the shared values embodied in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.” He’d also strengthen the parliamentary committee system, limit the ability of government to prorogue Parliament and end the practice of introducing huge omnibus bills that aren’t readily scrutinized by MPs.