Justin Trudeau and his new cabinet will be sworn in Wednesday and new ministers will have a full slate of work waiting as they slide into the backseats of their government limos for the first time.

How quickly will the “real change” happen that Trudeau promised? Immediately.

Looking through the 88-page Liberal platform, we find the word “immediate” or “immediately” 28 different times, attached to a whole pile of promises.

It starts on page eight of the platform: “We will immediately restore the mandatory long-form census.” The long-form census was made voluntary by the Harper Conservatives in a move panned by economists and researchers. The new industry minister gets this one.

Next page: “As an immediate commitment, we will invest $3 billion, over the next four years, to deliver more and better home care services for all Canadians.” Not sure how something can be done immediately over four years but we expect the new finance minister to find a way.

“Our plan will lift Canadians out of poverty starting immediately.” Trudeau has said his first bill will be to cut taxes for the middle class. But the middle class, by definition, aren’t poor. Details TBD on this one.

“To get our economy growing again, we need to immediately invest in help in our businesses and entrepreneurs.” Our economy is already growing, albeit slowly. Best guess from Bay Street is that this quarter it’s growing at an annual pace of just under 2.5%. Not great. But not bad, either.

The Conservatives got grief for the forest of tax credits that grew up on their watch but they were going to eliminate one for investors in labour-sponsored venture funds. The Liberals want to keep that one: “We will immediately reinstate the tax credit in full,” it says on page 17.

“We will immediately review Canada’s environmental assessment processes.” Seems every government wants to do this. This should keep MPs on the environment committee busy for a while.

“We will immediately re-engage in a renewed nation-to-nation process with Indigenous Peoples.” There are huge expectations for immediate change here making the pick of the aboriginal affairs and northern development minister a crucial one for the Trudeau administration.

“We will immediately lift the two per cent cap on funding for First Nations programs.” More funding may be good but the Harper government’s focus on band council accountability should continue.

“We will immediately launch a national public inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.” It’s still not clear what we’re going to learn from this that we don’t know. The perpetrators of violence against aboriginal women are, by and large, aboriginal men, men who are known to their victims.

Why are our aboriginal neighbours bedevilled by this violence? Crushing poverty, low levels of education, and lousy economic opportunities compared to non-aboriginal Canadians. So let’s go fix those things. But, no, we need an inquiry first. Sigh.

Over at the department of veterans affairs, the Liberal platform said: “We will hire 400 new service delivery staff. We will also immediately hire additional mental health professionals.” How the Conservatives let this file get away from them remains a mystery — even to many Conservatives.

“We will expand Canada’s intake of refugees from Syria by 25,000 through immediate government sponsorship.” The Liberals say those refugees will be in Canada by year-end. Well, the year will end precisely eight weeks after the new immigration minister’s first full day on the job. Good luck.

“We will immediately lift the Mexican visa requirement.” Something else for the immigration minister’s first day on the job.

“We will immediately launch an open and transparent competition to replace the CF-18 fighter aircraft.” The F-35 stealth fighter is out. What’s next? Ask the next defence minister.

“We will immediately begin an open and transparent review process of existing defence capabilities.” That’s well and good but what’s not is the Liberals, just like the Conservatives before them, will starve the Canadian Forces of money it needs to properly protect and serve us.

Finally, we know the Liberals are ready to run deficits for the next three years. But those deficits could be bigger unless the new revenue minister is ready to kick some butt by “directing [Canada Revenue Agency] to immediately begin an analysis and stronger enforcement of tax evasion.”

Truly, the Trudeau gang seems ready to ride madly off in all directions. Immediately.