Justin and Gerald

So just who is Gerald Butts? I am guessing the majority of Canadians do not know that he is an old Trudeau university buddy who is now the senior political adviser to our new Prime Minister and has had serious input into almost every policy Trudeau campaigned on in the recent election.

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Butts was the principal author of former Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's bankrupting green energy policies. It was his idea for a "positive message" that helped McGuinty win in Ontario and Justin Trudeau throughout his own campaign borrowed McGuinty's victory speech words that voters had "rejected the politics of division." Butts is an anti-energy environmental activist who is okay with running deficits, which is why Ontario continues to struggle to reduce its debts and has been downgraded by Moody's to "negative." What should be of concern to Canadians is that Trudeau campaigned on running "modest deficits" to finance infrastructure and social programs and what happened in Ontario could soon plague the entire country. Since 2005/06 Ontario's net debt has almost doubled and is now close to 300 billion and the Ontario government has never made a secret of its desire to have the Federal government bail them out. Trudeau has finally admitted his budget will exceed ten billion in deficit. So much for his pre-election promise to Canadians. The National Bank just recently said the deficit could actually reach ninety billion by the end of Trudeau's term. When you see the disaster in Ontario with the ballooning debt and crumbling of manufacturing because of the "green" energy policies pushed on the province by Gerald Butts. Canadians have just cause to fear under Justin Trudeau's leadership.