{"id":4198,"date":"2015-10-21T05:36:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T09:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/?p=4198"},"modified":"2015-10-21T00:18:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T04:18:25","slug":"roundup-setting-a-new-tone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/2015\/10\/21\/roundup-setting-a-new-tone\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundup: Setting a new tone"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first day \u201con the job,\u201d as it were, and Justin Trudeau was out to set a different tone from his predecessor from the get-go. While he and his cabinet<\/a> won\u2019t be sworn in until November 4th<\/sup><\/a>, the job of transition started today, but that didn\u2019t stop Trudeau for being at the Metro station in his riding first thing to thank the voters there, and to pose for photos \u2013 something that Harper is pretty much loathe to do if it\u2019s not in a controlled space. (One imagines that Trudeau\u2019s RCMP detail is going to start freaking out really shortly). From Montreal, he flew back to Ottawa for a rally with supporters and local winning candidates (who pretty much swept the region here, with Pierre Poilievre\u2019s riding being the sole exception), and then up to Parliament Hill to make some calls with international leaders<\/a> including President Obama, where talk ranged from the ISIS mission to pipeline projects, with the message to the world being that \u201cCanada is back<\/a>.\u201d Well, with a number of high-level international conferences coming up, Trudeau has high expectations<\/a> being placed on him by those other world leaders. There is also a great sense of optimism<\/a> with the premiers as well, so that looks like it could be a changing tone there as well. From there, Trudeau held a press conference in the National Press Theatre \u2013 something Stephen Harper hasn\u2019t done since 2009, when he was trying to strike a deal with Michael Ignatieff not to topple his government over the summer (resulting in that Blue Ribbon panel on EI reform, which ended up collapsing thanks to the antics of Poilievre). He also walked there from the Hill as opposed to taking a motorcade. (Harper will take his motorcade across the street from 24 Sussex to Rideau Hall). Trudeau took questions for about 25 minutes \u2013 including follow-ups, and then promised that he would be back for more. It\u2019s a completely different way of running things that most of the younger journalists on the Hill (myself included) aren\u2019t used to. Not only that, but he promised that these would be regular appearances. It\u2019s resetting the tone with the media, and it\u2019s a hopeful signal that the tone really will start to change around here, and maybe we\u2019ll start getting back to the way things used to be, before the dark times.<\/p>\n

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A pleasure to thank Montrealers for their support today. I'll be proud to represent Papineau as Prime Minister. pic.twitter.com\/qBDGFTyUXA<\/a><\/p>\n

— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) October 20, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n