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Two years ago, I did something wacky. I voted aspirationally.

Two years ago, I was delighted by the victory of the Justin Trudeau Liberals I helped elect. Their parade to Rideau Hall for the swearing-in looked like a collective embodiment of invigorating hope and change.

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But that was then.

In this two-year electoral anniversary week, rain is falling steadily on the Sunny Ways parade.

Campaign promises broken or unfulfilled, bungling, displays of ineptitude, fiscal recklessness – all defiantly wrapped in a banner of staggeringly misguided self-congratulation, as if the sun were still shining – have left countless 2015 Liberal voters disillusioned with a government that has a genius for optics and rhetoric.

And not much else.

Give the Liberals credit for a fairer child benefit, the Syrian refugee welcome, merit-based Senate appointments, Chrystia Freeland – but they still come out looking bad.